Keepsake urn
 

My wife passed Christmas Eve of 2023. Getting ready for burial-at
-sea May 5th, 2024. How do I research Keepsakes Urn or jewelry as you mentioned.

Just sharing a comment as an fyi, not endorsing either way, just adding to the thread:
Caller a while back to the Dave Ramsey radio show asked how he can minimize his burial expenses so as not to burden his family. The person lived in a larger city with a medical university. Dave suggested to make arrangements with the medical school to donate the body for medical research.

You might want to rethink that suggestion.......



Harvard’s morgue scandal is part of ‘a much larger story’ in trading human remains – NBC Boston

Based on the other responses so far, we might have the place to ourselves. 😁

No matter what your 'wishes' are or whatever arrangements you have made for cremation/burial, it will be up to the controlling family member to carry out whatever will be done with your remains. You'll never know anyway.

Leave your address and we'll write to you.

Told my wife that when I tipped over she should have me stuffed and mounted, then propped up in my favorite chair with a scowl on my face, a beer in one hand and the other hand raised in the one-finger salute. But we don't know any taxidermists, so...

On a more pragmatic note we both purchased preneed cremation policies, so when the time comes we're shipped off to the crematorium for toasting, with the ashes returned in a cardboard box to whomever is the surviving spouse. What happens after that is the family's call. My personal preference is to have my ashes scattered over the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in far NE Minnesota. I know some pilots so that shouldn't be a problem.

USPS delivers to Heaven? I never knew that! 😲

The first paragraph of your post.....for a second, I thought you were giving the last review at Sonny’s! ;)

I'm an organ donor (which is against my religion). I can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery because I'm an organ donor, and because I have a tattoo (also against my religion). Once I'm dead, I will cease to care what someone wants to do with my ashes. They can just toss them in the trash, that's fine. I don't want my death to be someone else's financial burden.

* just as long as it’s not in a rec center dumpster OBB!:a20:

Two thumbs up! Practical and compassionate.

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Also, Father Christmas!

We were together 49 years. I had a very difficult time after my husbands passing. At his service I gave a small amount of his cremains to family members , to be spread in their towns. For the next few years I took a tablespoon of his ashes (in a contact lenses case) everywhere I traveled, and revisited places we had lived or loved. Very easy to He is all over the world.
Some ashes are under a headstone in Ohio. I still have some to be mixed with mine….then mine will be buried there, too.
I know this is way too much for some people, but it’s what gave me comfort.
The point of the story….cremation gives you options. Cremains can be divided and given away or disposed of all at once.
Our local columbariums hold two urns per niche. Very inexpensive, but you do have a final memorial.
It’s a matter of deciding what is important to you.

Thank you for sharing.....and I totally agree with the option.

🤥🫢🤨🙄 So, (sniff, my mommy lied?

Absolute nonsense....

A simple Google search reveals:

"Is organ donation permitted in Judaism? Organ donation is giving an organ to help someone who needs a transplant. In principle Judaism sanctions and encourages organ donation in order to save lives (pikuach nefesh)."

"An organ donor can be buried in a Jewish cemetery with any/all traditional funeral and burial rituals, including Tahara (ritual washing)."

"While the Jewish community might still be divided over tattoos, the prohibition against burying a tattooed person in a Jewish cemetery is a myth."