what to do with the ashes ?

[simonfraser]

put it in an urn and leave it on the chimney breast . . . .

hmm, a bit boring, why not mix it up with epoxy and have it painted on one's favourite craft as anti slip paint ?

any better sugestions ?

 

[theforeman]

whose ashes ?

 

[Stemar]

I used to know a lady whose husband died suddenly He was walking along the road when he fell over and was dead before he hit the ground. Unsurprisingly she was devastated and had all sorts of plans of loving things to do with his ashes.

At the funeral, she discovered that she wasn't the only tearful female. Further investigation revealed that he'd been playing away for years. Grief was transformed to anger and the ashes were ceremonially scattered at the local tip. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Talbot]

There is a company that will take the ashes and compress them enormously such that they will actually form a sythetic diamond (but slightly yellow)

 

[chriscallender]

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At the funeral, she discovered that she wasn't the only tearful female. Further investigation revealed that he'd been playing away for years.

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Which probably explains why he died so suddenly. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Appleyard]

Reminds me of the chap who died...his wife had him cremated,put the ashes in an urn and took it up a hill. She emptied them out on a flat stone,took a deep breath and blew them away. Her parting words were...





























"all right you ba***rd...there's the blow job youv'e always wanted."

 

[isandell]

On a slightly serious note, I know of two ppl who were left with the task of disposing of ashes in place and location that the deceased had specified. Both prolly seemed like ggod ideas to the deceased but put a lot of pressure and anxiety on the person charged with the task, and almost certianly not what the decreased would have wished.

Ian

 

[Bejasus]

Wife's a ceramist/potter. I said she could make a pot, use my ashes to make an ash glaze for it and when she went her ashes could be placed inside and the kids could bury the pot where we wanted. All sems a bit too morbid now. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Superflid]

I've told mine to keep the ashes to throw on the path outside when it's icy, might be the first and last time I've been any use!

 

[Gunfleet]

Probably a smoker.

 

[William_H]

Our local cemetry charge quite a bit to have the ashes packaged and returned after the "barbecue." I don't reckon they have any value sentimental or otherwise so for a relative we just ignored the whole question. They finally wrote back that they had been spread in the cemetry gardens. fine by me and cheapest. We did have a nice brass plaque to remember her by but ashes is ashes.
I would rather my kids benefit from the cash than waste money on fancy caskets and ash preservation for me. olewill

 

[Lakesailor]

That's a bit morbid as well. What happens to it when you go. Does it become a family heirloom. And if it becomes a tradition, how do you tell Great Uncle Arthur from Aunt Sybil.
All too complicated.
People have different ways of handling loss, but hanging onto physical things seems a poor substitute for memories, to me.

 

[gandy]

One of the local hang glider pilots died of cancer a couple of years ago. At the request of his family and with them present, his ashes were scattered by hang glider over one of his favourite sites.

 

[graham]

One memorable morning a motorboat was approaching the RNLI Lifeboat stopped in the water ahead of him , the helmsman altered course to pass astern of it.Only after they had steamed through the flowers etc in the water did they realize why the lifeboat was stopped /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

i have asked SWMBO to flush mine down the toilet as the outfall is close to where the Lifeboat does ash scatterings and it will save them the trouble.