My Late Partners Ashes

[NoseyNose]

I want to ask you great guys at AB,who were so so supportive in my relatively recent bereavement.Where should I scatter my late partners ashes,that I have just received from Pure Cremation.

I know that I can scatter them in our largish garden,(or bury the urn) but I think it was anywhere that is a public place it might require permission.

We do have a river near us,which means his ashes would go down to the sea,  6 miles away,but I don't know if this would be allowed either?

Any (sensible) suggestions would be very helpful.

Doing this will help me to achieve some sort of closure.

Thank You,Gordon.

[Peter Pedant]

Since time immemorial no civilization would plonk their remains 'at the bottom of the wardrobe'. O tempora, O mores !  

cremation started with farce in England, with the incredibly mad William Price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Price_(physician).

In terms of religion, interment of ashes can be a problem ( depending on what form has been filled out) - as the Anglican are keen with burying once and no reinterment. ( Romans dont have this thing, and dig up their saints on a regular basis ) - so yes we interred ashes in a churchyard with the priest refusing even to say prayer over the site. As a Roman I was expecting more ra-ra-ra. 

 

[jno]

when a wit said after the England cricket team had been beaten by Australia that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia", cremation was still a hot topic (so to speak) - that was 1882 and Christians wanted to know how they could be resurrected after the Last Judgment if they'd  been reduced to ashes.  (Answer: much the same as if they'd been reduced to bones or evaporated entitrely, I suppose.)

[Peter Pedant]

yes that is absolutely correct - that is why heretics were burnt - no resurrection

[Khandro]

P.P.  //yes that is absolutely correct - that is why heretics were burnt - no resurrection//

Not quite; the main reason for burning people was that there was no single person responsible for the act of killing, and there was no blood-shedding either.

[rowanwitch]

Dave would have found it amusing,   I am only holding them in respect for his wish that we be committed together.  Absolutely no meaning to me as I have no expectation of afterlife, a spirit world of anything else.   

And is the wardrobe any worse than an urn in the sideboard, or a prehistoric internet of ashes in  the structure of a roundhouse, or the stone houses in the Orkneys.  Death is irrelevant in the timespan of the universe.  As irrelevant as life.

[rowanwitch]

Internet!!! Interment

[Hopkirk]

A brilliant autocorrect there Rowan.

An internet of ashes sounds a superb business idea.

[jno]

what, having them shouting at each other all day and trying to sell each other gummies? Nah, it's better corrected😊

[Peter Pedant]

clearly burning a heretic had its uses / reasons