On April 14, 2010, C.J. Twomey killed himself after having an argument with his mom. Since then, his mother, Hallie, had left the urn with his ashes on a shelf in her Maine home.
But Hallie wanted more for her son, a former member of the Air Force who was only 20 when he died, so she enlisted volunteers on Facebook to take a little bit of C.J.'s ashes and give him one last adventure.
"I don't want him to have to sit in an urn for my benefit for whatever rest of time that we have," Hallie Twomey told The Associated Press. "I wanted to give him something. I'm trying to give him a journey."
So Hallie made a request on Facebook: She wanted her son to "see the mountains that he never got to climb, see the vast oceans that he would have loved, see tropical beaches and lands far and away."
After the post was shared by over 100 of her friends, strangers began offering to help too. Hallie started a separate Facebook page just for the project, which she called "Scattering C.J.," where loved ones and strangers alike can follow the project.
There are only two rules volunteers have to follow when they scatter C.J.'s ashes around the world. They have to tell him his mom will always love him, and that she's sorry.
"YOU MUST AGREE TO SAY THAT," Hallie Twomey wrote on her Facebook page. "Because I am and I need him to hear it as the last thing he hears before he takes off."
Hallie also asks people to think about C.J., and to think about the people he gave life to through organ donation.