Very mixed end of the year.

[Android Kaeli]

It's always hard to lose a family member, especially a parent -- something I know too well with both my parents. I wish you and your family strength and blessings for this coming Friday.

[mjr]

It's always hard to lose a family member, especially a parent -- something I know too well with both my parents. I wish you and your family strength and blessings for this coming Friday.

He chose cremation, so I don't know how I'm going to react to the fact that there's a small box instead of a casket.

[mjr]

So since my dad was cremated, I found a YouTube video on what happens during the cremation process. I now know more than I probably really wanted to about cremation.

It's here, if anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TSFX-hFgIk

Also, I was a touch surprised that his cremains were in a plastic box inside a cardboard box. And that's how they were buried.

[AnaKhouri]

My dad is currently in the guest room closet. When we purchase a house in the next couple years we are going to plant a tree, and plant him with it 🙂. Then when this cat of his dies (they were BFFs, I even included him in the obit) we will bury him under the tree.

In Japan, cremated remains are laid out and the family goes through them with chopsticks to pick out the larger bits of bone. I was reading a book about a British woman who was killed in Tokyo, and after her cremation her bewildered family was ushered in to do this. Her father was the only one who stayed and he said he found the process comforting.

[csquared]

When my Mother died, my Dad held on to her remains. He was going to scatter her over the north face of Scotts Bluff. He died before he could do so.

Now, I have five sibling. It is almost impossible to get us to agree on anything. So it was decided to split both of their remains between the six of us. I have two pencil bags, each with a portion of my parents remains. We did all agree that my Mother would have approved of the colors that were chosen for the bags. Now to figure out what I am going to do with them.

[greek_jester]

Now to figure out what I am going to do with them.

Scatter them both over Scotts Bluff. That way they'll be together and you'll have honoured your father's intentions. Maybe you'll even be able to persuade some of your siblings to join you.