Ashes On The Fireplace.

[Sparkles62]

Been to collect the dogs ashes today, little tiny box sitting on the fireplace, reminds me of a wierd experience i had when i was younger.
Frind had gone away to work and news got back to the village that she had died, I saw her Mum a few weeks lateer and said " I'm so sorry to hear about Carol" She just looked at me daft and said " she's home, she's in the living room, if you're not busy, come over for a coffee with us now ". feeling really embarrassed, and thinking I had got it wrong, I went in to see her, only to be greeted by a casket on the coffee table, had an extreemly uncomfortable coffee while her Mum told Carol that I had come to see her. Now I'm older , I realise that she must have been finding it very hard losing her only daughter, but it was really wierd being there at the time.

[Prudie]

I expect it was a comfort and hope you find that too. I still have my dog's ashes from 12 years ago. A much loved cat however had his scattered in a hole in the garden last year and a honeysuckle planted. X

[mrsmaveric]

a friend of mine had her husbands ashes put into an egg-timer...she said that when she turned the egg-timer over it was the only time he ever worked..[only joking]...on a serious note a friend of mine kept the urn of her dead auntys ashes in her bedroom for yeras..dont know how she could do that really...i think they should be scattered in a favoured place of the deceased or in a cemetary...

[Sparkles62]

The ashes of MiL and FiL are buried together in a well known Welsh beauty spot, where they had very happy memories. Was like a military operation doing it, not legal. Only family know where they are. We go on birthdays, mothers day etc and leave a flower each in the bush nearby. X

[Dee Sa]

my ex's ashes are in my son's garage he asked me to have them whilst he moved home and I ended up having them for 2 years and I asked he take them back, they were then in the boot of his car and he used to say my dad comes everywhere I go which is more than he did when I was a kid, now they are in the garage and we dont mention them.

[Sparkles62]

When a neighbour from our childhood passed away, one of my sisters bought her house. We were emptying the garage wqhen Mum and I turned around to find Sis with a fancy tin in her hand and gritty grey powder running through the fingers of the other hand, whats this? Sis asked, thats Sid, Mum replied, Sid was neighbours brother, who lived with her as we grew up. The look of horror on Sis's face was a picture. I never did ask what happened to him, I presume he went in the skip, quite sad really.