My husband was once held up on a golf course, while a group of middle-aged men walked onto the green and scattered their dead mate's ashes. 'It was his favourite hole,' they said. 'Don't mind us, play on.' Hourglass urns come in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from a large table-top hourglass and small pendants for jewelry. This allows flexibility in how much of the ashes is needed to complete the piece. A larger hourglass may be better suited for a single statement piece in a place the family spends its time together. A tiny hourglass pendant is better if multiple people wish to carry a piece of their loved one with them, especially if family members live far apart. A cremation hourglass urn is simply an hourglass filled with the ashes of a loved one after they have completed the cremation process. The hourglass urns come in many colors and sizes with various themes, like a nautical theme. Initials or short messages may be engraved on the hourglass as well. And boaters who cruise along the River Soar in Leicestershire have said if mourners continue to sprinkle ashes in the water - particularly popular among Hindu and Sikh mourners - the river will become unusable.

It's even possible to get a loved one's remains made into a diamond, or even a vase, says Caron Staley of the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath. Umm, do people not realise ashes are not fertiliser? They are actually toxic and will kill pretty much any plant life you scatter them on. Still going to put them on your favourite golf hole or picturesque mountainside...? In Ontario, under provincial legislation you may dispose of cremated remains only in an authorized cemetery or your own private property. Anywhere else is illegal, although people do it. To sniff the ashes up your nose would bring a charge by the police under the Criminal Code of Canada, (federal), "Of suffering indignities to human remains".Last year, the Mountaineering Council of Scotland said the soil on some of the summits was being damaged. The installation of the ashes into the hourglass is covered in an instruction manual that comes with it. There is no requirement to send in a certain amount of ashes to a company. This allows the family to decide how much of the ashes they want to add and whether they want to mix it with another kind or color of sand. This also opens the opportunity to mix the ashes of two people into the hourglass urn without any issue.

Heavenly Stars Fireworks offers a variety of services for incorporating your loved one’s ashes into fireworks. They can help you arrange a special firework display and a happier alternative when saying goodbye to a loved one. In the next two lines of ‘Timer,’the speaker notes that “your wedding ring” is now sitting inside an envelope. This makes clear why there was gold present during the process of cremation. One can assume that the deceased person asked to keep their ring on specifically or that it was at the request of a family member that it remained. Throughout this poem, the poet makes use of several literary devices. These include but are not limited to: As the title suggests, when it comes to a funeral some like to make the day a personal testimony to the life and passions of the deceased. Whatever you decide to do with your loved one’s ashes, it’s best to discuss the options with other relatives beforehand. If you choose to scatter the ashes, you will need to ensure you have permission before proceeding.Harrison is skilled at creating poetry out of colloquial language, often humorously, yet poignantly. Note the cleverness of the rhymes ‘St James’s’ and ‘name is’, and also ‘incinerator’ and ‘later’.