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New Survey – Return of Ashes from the Crematorium

Crematorium hand over 400k crematoriums in the UK every year, the average price of a price of a cremation is £850 It don’t need a Nobel prize winning mathaniciacan to work out this is a sizable industry. It is a caring industry too, over the past few years we have been polling the public to […]

Hindu Scattering Service on the Ganges in India

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The Hindu population of the UK increases year on year, in the last census in 2011 817,000 people in England and Wales identified themselves as Hindus which is 1.5% of the population. A proportion of these would loved to have their ashes placed in the Ganges in India after their death. For some time we have […]

It’s time to do something with the ashes now Mum

Bereavement: when to scatter the ashes Bereavement: when to scatter the ashes. We receive a significant number of calls from a daughter or son who have rung asking about how to do something with with their Dad’s/Mum’s ashes. In general they ring with a good heart and want to scatter the ashes somewhere significant but […]

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What to do with ashes? 12 things to consider: VIDEO

When you get the ashes back from the funeral directors it can seem very daunting. You wont know what to do for the best, there may be relatives wanting one thing or another. However, there are a number of things you may not have considered, why would you? Over the years we have listened to […]

Survey from British insurance company on ashes preferences

There has been a survey of people ash scattering preferences and the following is the main content of a press release from insurance provider British Seniors Insurance Agency: [They] looked into the weird and wonderful places that people want their ashes scattered once they die. New research has revealed over half (55%) of the UK want […]

Grave robbing ashes in China – thieves demand a ransom!

After writing over 500 articles on the subject you would think the subject would yield little in the way of surprises, not true. Here is a new issue that I had not come across or to be honest even considered. In the Chinese city of Xinyang there has been a case of grave robbers removing ashes […]

10 Ways of Keeping Ashes at Home

Keeping ashes at home The crematorium have rung your funeral director to say your loved one’s ashes are ready for collection. The funeral home pop a lovely letter in the post letting you know that they have the ashes and will keep them until you are ready to collect them. What do you do? Your […]

Forensic science and the case of the dubious ashes

I think most of may raise questions if we received a love remains back and we got a solid grey lump back like the one in the picture. This is what happened to family of a man in the US, what is more it was a kilogram heavier than was expected. Dubious indeed! The funeral […]

The value of gruesome gold

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The value of gruesome gold.. (all wording in italics is from the original author) Question: What happens to the gold teeth when a body is cremated? This was the question sent to the Citizen Times and here is the their answer My answer: In this case, it seems, you can take it with you, mainly because, […]