The truth is, there is an essence of your loved one that lingers with the cremation ashes. While it may not be a consciousness, it is a little of their energy that stays behind, almost like someone’s perfume that lingers in the air even after they have left the room.
That is the energy that people look for and cling to when they hold on to a loved one’s cremation ashes. Whether they put them in a pendant on a chain, in a cremation
Mountains have long transfixed, tugged, tantalized, and terrified humankind. These lofty heights, so far removed from the day-to-day realm of most people, have often appeared as the haunts of the gods, portals between Earth and divine reaches. Depending on the culture and the individual, they’ve been places to seek out for spiritual stimulation, or ones to leave entirely alone as a rarefied and dangerous domain. Mountains have also managed to remain, in large part, refuges of wildness and wilderness. Their more pristine character translates to practical ecological services, including as critical fountainheads supplying vast numbers of lowlanders with freshwater.
When people choose burial, a traditional form of death care, the more limited set of options becomes clear. One seeks and chooses the availability of the cemetery burial location, the casket, the headstone options, the funeral home, and a few other arrangements. Once the funeral and graveside ceremony is completed, paying respects and saying your goodbyes are completed to some extent.
Cremation, on the other hand, comes with a few unique options that can make the memorializing of the person not only a ceremony to honor them but also a moment of closure and beauty to everyone closest to the person. In particular, choosing to scatter the ashes of a loved one in a unique location can provide a deeper sense of letting go of the pain while embracing the beauty of how the natural world works.
Life is fleeting, like the brush of faerie wings against a dewy, moss-covered tree. Anne Stokes, artist of the fantastic and imaginary, uses the living world to take those who are not living and show the world how they could be. In The Light Urns aims to feature an appropriate
After receiving the cremated remains of a loved one, you have many options. You can keep cremains in a beautiful urn at home. You can scatter ashes in places of special meaning. You can turn cremated remains into pieces of art or jewelry.
While all good options, they lack a certain level of permanence. Future generations might want to be able to visit a spot where they can find the remains of their ancestors.
Chester French Stewart, chairman of French Funerals and Cremation in Albuquerque, tells the story of a young woman who flew from New York to New Mexico to visit the grave of her grandfather. However, Grandpa had been cremated and the remains scattered in the mountains with no record
Have you ever wondered what to do with cremated remains? With the annual number of cremations in the United States rapidly closing in on one million people, we’re generating literally tons of cremated remains, a.k.a. cremains, every year. What can you do with your loved ones’ powdered bone fragments? More than you’d think! The top options are to keep, dispose of, or enshrine cremains. Here is my Top Ten list of things you can do with cremated remains, with associated pros and cons for each option.
