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Clandon Wood Natrual Burial Site for Ashes: Surrey
Cremation ashes interment at Clandon Wood The site offer a high quality service in the heart of Surrey Offering religious, spiritual or secular ash interment service or commemoration. They have wonderful contemporary glass pavilion is a perfect setting for you to have both a farewell service as well as a catered gathering should you wish and […]
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Swaminarayan Hindu leaders want a special place for scattering ashes on the shores of Lake Windermere
Lake Windermere has become a special place to scatter ashes of a loved one for members of the Swaminarayan sect: a rapidly growing branch of Hinduism, popular in the western world. The reason for the lakes importance within the sect comes after one of it’s leaders died after a boat trip there in the summer […]
More...The two opposite roles water fulfils when it comes to scattering ashes
Scattering ashes on water paradoxically seems to occupy two opposite roles at the same time: a place of special meaning and a somewhere anonymous. This occurred to me after I read two stories one after another of the different roles that water was fulfilling. The first was a report on Shoko Asahara the leader of […]
More...Etihad Airways cremation ashes policy
Carrying ashes on a Etihad Airways flight Etihad Airways The Abu Dhabi based flight operator has announced that it is rolling out new rules on carry-on bags aboard flights they are restricting certain powder material from cabin luggage. The good news is that there is certain exemptions and cremated remains is one of them: 1. Medically […]
More...Instagram, Tina Turner and Scattering her sons ashes
The musical icon Tina Turner has recently (28 July 2018) scattered the ashes her son at sea off the coast of California (USA). Very sad, her son apparently took his own life earlier in the month. How did she let people know? Instagram, (see picture below) adding the following comment: “My saddest moment as a […]
More...The Church of England has granted atheist parents the right to exhumation their daughter ashes
Beverley Wilson and Michael Hughill lost their 10-month-old daughter back in 1982, a hugely traumatic experience. The child (Lizzie) was cremated and her ashes were buried the same month at Chestnut Cemetery in Hertfordshire. The parents, due to the trauma they were feeling, left the arrangements for the funeral to Mr Huhgill’s farther. Mrs Wilson, […]
More...Have I been wrong about Resomation (water disposal of a body)
Burial and Cremation are the time-honoured ways to dispose of a body, since prehistoric times cultures have been either been burning or burying them (some have been leaving them on the top of mountains for the vultures- but let’s not go there). Well there is a new kid on the block – Alkane Hydrolysis body […]
More...Location South East England – New Forest, Hampshire: Ashes into Stratosphere / the Edge of Space
Would you like your loved one’s ashes scattered on the edge of space? We have a launch site in the New Forest in Hampshire just a hop skip and Jump from London. Say goodbye in your own way, bring family and friends together, celebrate your loved one’s life, at a perfect individually customised launch day? […]
More...Can you use a funeral plan to tell your family what to do with your ashes?
About 1.3 million mortality-minded Brits have paid for their funerals ahead of time using some form of pre-paid funeral plan. If you’re planning to join them, you might be wondering whether your plan can be used to sort out what will happen to your ashes at the same time. The (inconvenient) answer is: kind of. […]
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