Storing cremated ashes

JayQue

Hi guys,

I know this isn't the funnest topic, but I'm looking to find a place to buy an small wooden box that would be appropriate to store a small amount of cremated ashes in (the rest will be scattered)? It's proposed to bury the box then in a grave.

Thanks!

EirWatchr

You should call any Funeral Director's - they supply wooden caskets for ashes.

PirateShampoo

How would you feel about making one?

martinedwards

if you're Roman Catholic, you may need to discuss this with your priest.

there was some sort of a ....... discussion.... about this recently.

my question is why split the ashes? TO ME it sounds weird to scatter half on the touchline of old trafford and bury the rest in a grave in Tralee (or where-ever)

loobylou

The crematorium will supply (sell) you one.

Cabaal

martinedwards wrote: »

if you're Roman Catholic, you may need to discuss this with your priest.

there was some sort of a ....... discussion.... about this recently.)

Or, like the majority of Catholics they can do what THEY believe is appropriate to do. Very simple really.

Catholic Church is out of touch in relation to what people wish to do after death.

J C

Cabaal wrote: »

Catholic Church is out of touch in relation to what people wish to do after death.

I'd have thought most people would wish to spend eternity in Heaven after death !!!:)
... but maybe that's just me.

I have to say, having attended a number of cremations, I find the whole thing shockingly nihilistic, involving as it does the immediate and total destruction of the body so soon after death.
Again, maybe that's just me (and I have no wish to offend anybody who may differ with me on this) ... but it's just how I feel about the whole thing.

Cabaal

J C wrote: »

I'd have thought most people would wish to spend eternity in Heaven after death !!!:)
... but maybe that's just me.

I have to say, having attended a number of cremations, I find the whole thing shockingly nihilistic, involving as it does the immediate and total destruction of the body so soon after death.

and yet its something that forms an integral part of our species,

Numerous cultures and society's have cremated there dead. Even here in Ireland we did it for many thousands of years and parts of these cremation's can be found throughout the country in thousands of tombs.

You may find it nihilistic but your view is wrong to have this type of viewpoint, cremation has formed parts of religions that pre-date your religion. So it most certainly isn't nihilistic.

Again, maybe that's just me (and I have no wish to offend anybody who may differ with me on this) ... but it's just how I feel about the whole thing.

People should do what THEY believe is appropriate to do with the remains after death, if thats cremation or if thats a standard burial thats fine.

c_man

Stall the ball, internet atheist butts into Christian forum to give their 2cents that doesn't address the topic. Shocker!


Op, I'm sure the funeral director should be able to point you in the right direction. Had something similar recently with a deceased relative of herself.

Delirium

MOD NOTE

@Cabaal it would be appreciated if you didn't derail the thread.

Please keep to the topic, i.e. information about the storing of cremated ashes.

Thanks for your attention.

J C

Cabaal wrote: »

and yet its something that forms an integral part of our species,

Numerous cultures and society's have cremated there dead. Even here in Ireland we did it for many thousands of years and parts of these cremation's can be found throughout the country in thousands of tombs.

It has never historically been done within the Judeo-Christian tradition. Cremation wasn't legal in Britain until 1885 ... and cremation has only taken off in Ireland in the past few years ... for years there wasn't even a crematorium south of the Border. If memory serves me, the first crematorium was erected in Glasnevin as recently as 1982.

Cabaal wrote: »

You may find it nihilistic but your view is wrong to have this type of viewpoint, cremation has formed parts of religions that pre-date your religion. So it most certainly isn't nihilistic.

There is no religion that pre-dates my faith ... which is in the Judeo-Christian continuity right back to the Flood.
... and Cremation is indeed objectively nihilistic, wiping out all physical trace of the persons body within a few days of their death.
Like I have said, I have no wish to offend anybody on this, but this is how it is ... fact.

Cabaal wrote: »

People should do what THEY believe is appropriate to do with the remains after death, if thats cremation or if thats a standard burial thats fine.

I agree with you on that.

J C

The advent of cremation is creating all kinds of questions around the ashes ... to store or not to store them ... to bury or spread them somewhere ... to divide them up or dispose of them together ... to scatter them at sea or over land ... to dispose of them in a communal underground facility ... or individually in a Columbarium ... or to make them into everyday items, like jewellery or spread them on a flowerbed at the crematorium ... the latter two options only involve a tiny fraction of the ashes i.e. a spoonful, with the balance being disposed of via other means