Posted on 05/18/2026 7:15:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A Southern California family rattled after discovering what appears to be the ashes of a stranger in an urn they ordered through Amazon say they are trying to do the right thing, but that the companies involved are not making it easy.
Mark Culberston said the urn was one of a few his family purchased after the death of his grandfather early last year. After enduring months of grief at the loss of her husband, Culbertson’s grandmother was finally ready to place her late husband’s ashes within urns for family members.
Culbertson explained to KTLA’s Shelby Nelson that all of the urns were empty except for one of them.
“This one has an ashy substance in it and we did a little more research. They look like ashes,” he said.
Culbertson contacted Amazon right after the family made the discovery but said the response he got from the giant online retailer was frustrating, saying their response to the matter was super casual.
“It’s like I’m talking to them, like, ‘Hey, I got shoes. They looked like they were scuffed. I need to return these,’” he said.
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What, of importance, is in someone’s cremated ashes?
NOTHING!
I have a friend whose husband recently died. She had a special ring made with a secret compartment where she keeps a small amount of his ashes.
CREEPY????
DISGUSTING????
Glad you appreciated it-I have lived a completely average life that seems to me extraordinary in some aspects.
But, I have been a lucky man…:)
Bones!
Might want to check out the debris/body fields from the Titanic sink site. That was 114 years ago. Nothing. Now all the wars @ sea since Creation, drownings etc. God doesn’t need mortal remains to raise man to immortality.
That has been my universal experience too-when you begin thinking about the minutia of what you are doing, you get behind the eight ball and make it more likely you will have a mishap!
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