Makes the case for cremation. Although I once witnessed a “ceremony” on the beach where they didn’t go in to the water to empty the urn, it was just thrown onto the sand. SMH.
That’s why ‘me and mine’ are going to be resting in niches.
No relative is getting near our remains.
Anyone that touches my husbands sacred remains will get a visit from hell!
When I went to airborne school in 1988, one of the instructors ("black hats") told us that a WWII paratrooper had recently passed away and requested his cremains be scattered during a parachute drop. The family had gathered in the bleachers at Fryar Drop Zone at Ft. Benning to watch the scattering. The old timer's ashes had been scattered by a descending paratrooper but due to an unexpected shift in the winds, a portion of the ashes came down amongst and upon the gathered family members...