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Tag: Greece

Greece, with its rich history and stunning landscapes, offers a beautiful and meaningful setting for scattering ashes and holding cremation ceremonies. This ancient land provides a variety of serene locations to honour your loved ones. From the tranquil beaches of...

Scattering Ashes Abroad: Why Respect Matters

A Santorini ashes scattering video shows why families must think about law, culture and local people before scattering ashes overseas. Scattering Ashes Abroad: Meaningful, But Please Think First A video has been circulating of tourists scattering a loved one’s ashes while walking through the streets of Santorini in Greece. They appear relaxed, even joyful, singing […]

What are the Laws relating to Scattering Ashes in Europe

Many of you want to scatter ashes aboard – a favourite holiday destination, where your beloved proposed or any number of heartwarming reasons. Over the years I have tried to find out what is the law covering scattering ashes is in other countries, this has proved remarkably difficult. Mainly due to the fact I don’t […]

Philip II of Macedonia Cremated Remains Confirmed

Most of us have heard of Alexander the Great, well in case you weren’t aware his father was Philip II of Macedonia and scientists now believe they have discovered his cremated remains. The tomb that held them was found a while ago in 1977, but recent excavations revealed that there were were more burial chambers […]

Why is so difficult to cremate someone in Greece?

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Cremation in Greece: Slow Progress After Years of Delay In 2006, the Greek parliament passed a law permitting cremation. Yet for more than a decade afterwards, not a single person was cremated in the country. Despite overcrowded urban cemeteries — where bodies are commonly exhumed after three years to make space for others — cremation […]

The Rise and Fall of Cremation in the Ancient World

Ancient Greek & Roman Cremation Practices As far back as 1000BC the ancient Greeks had adopted cremation as measure to deal with their dead. It is likely that it was introduced for military reasons as a way of making sure that soldiers killed abroad could be returned home, the bodies were cremated and their ashes […]

Origins of Cremation Rites and Ashes — The Iliad Story

Achilles, Patroclus and One of the Earliest Funeral Pyre Stories Origins of cremation ashes and rites: The Trojan war is coming to it’s final stages Achilles’ friend Patroclus is killed by by the hero Hector. Achilles is devastated he puts on new armour and re-enters the fight eventually killing Hector. For Achilles revenge is not […]