Ash Alert!!!
That probably happens far more frequently than the general public wants to believe. Even with that room for doubt, I would be fine with cremation for myself when the time comes.
We all have our personal feelings about such topics.
My father was cremated. The ashes were placed in four different vases and distributed to the four of his children.
I knew better to say something back then, when feelings were still raw, but I didn’t really want my own small vases of his ashes.
I had great love and respect for my dad, and he was basically a nice guy on top of it, but no, the idea of keeping some physical essence of him as dry grey ashes in a little piece of pottery was never appealing to me.
But that’s a conversation I will probably never have with my two older siblings. Somethings are better left unsaid.
People are just dyin to get in that place.
This happens with wedding gowns. A bride will trust a dry cleaner to properly store her gown in blue paper and in a box (not to be opened until needed) only to discover 25 years later when her daughter is to wear it that the box contains rags or whatever.
If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead. But quick. And then we give you a handful of the ashes, which you can pretend were hers.
You just don’t know what’s in that urn.
If it was just a dog or a cat of mine, I’d want to notify the Better Business Bureau of the ashholes at Return To Nature, demand a full refund, and if I had to take them to small claims court, I would. However, I’m more than likely to find a nice little spot for burial in the yard or woods and call it a day.
Fake ashes have been sprinkled all over Colorado’s mountains and “favorite S’mores camping spots”.
I remember something like this happening a few years back in which they found a funeral home with stashed bodies. The crematorium was not working so the families were given a box with a scoop of powdered cement in it as the “ashes.”
This confirms a theory I’ve always had.
Ashes are ashes. Your loved one, some stranger, some pet that was cremated, last weeks barbecue, etc.
How you gonna know? Besides - burning a body like this borders on desecration