Would You Wear a "Cremation Pendant?"

[Luv2Run]

I don't find it creepy, and I might consider doing it for one of my loved ones. The reason being that I'm in the military, so I'm often far from anywhere I call "home", so it's not like I'd be able to go visit their gravemarker anytime I want to like the rest of my family could.

 

[L&Lfan]

I would have the cremains interred just as I would a body in a casket. That's what my religion teaches.

 

[aprilchem]

No, but I don't think it's weird or anything. People have all different ways of remembering their loved ones. DH and I have a pact that when one of us dies the other ones will have the cremains turned into a diamond, because we are both scientists and we think it's cool that you can do that.

 

[Wishing on a star]

Nope, no way, no how, ever.
I don't necessarily find it creepy.
I find it to be a way for people to hang on to the thought/hope that one can be there forever.
I do find that thought to be very very strange.

 

[luvsJack]

I don't think it's a whole lot different than making the fingerprint necklace from your deceased love one or a lock of hair in a locket. I don't think any of those things are a choice I would make but its comforting to some and I think that's just fine for them.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I have looked around at some of the options people have for cremated remains and found some of them to be a bit interesting. You can make fireworks out of them, plant a tree with them, make jewelry and jewels with them, all kinds of spreading options, blast them into space and all kinds of other stuff. I'm amazed at the imaginations.

I've told DW to dump mine on the track just before the Outlaw Pro Stock class runs LOL

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

I've told DW to dump mine on the track just before the Outlaw Pro Stock class runs LOL

I can't tell you what I've asked my wife and/or children to do with mine because it would set off all kinds of discussion and I'm not sure I have the energy for it.

 

[Kies99]

Forget the pendant.

This is what I'm doing with my ashes! Each of my kids gets one!

https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-urns-for-ashes/personal-cremation-urns-ashes/

 

[gwynne]

Forget the pendant.

This is what I'm doing with my ashes! Each of my kids gets one!

https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-urns-for-ashes/personal-cremation-urns-ashes/

Good gracious....I've seen it all now.
Seriously, if someone had showed me that, I would have thought it was an an article from The Onion.

 

[JLTraveling]

I have one with my mom's ashes. I don't wear it all the time, but it's a very cool piece completely in line with the rest of my jewelry. I wear it when I want to feel especially close to her, or just because. The rest of the time it's in my jewelry box. My dad has a small sealed box, and we buried a small urn because it was important to my grandmother.

We also got the majority of the ashes in a scatter box. Mom was a traveler, and Dad and I travel together a lot. So we've scattered ashes at places she loved, or she would have loved. The coolest was at sea. We took the box on board, and asked the cabin steward if we were allowed to scatter them when we hit international waters. He checked with the captain, who diverted the ship slightly off course to where it was legal. The captain also sent two ships' officers to our cabin to escort us to a crew deck (along with a couple of friends we had met on board). And Mom got a proper burial at sea with the officers and captain leading, and us saying a few words during the actual scattering. It was completely unexpected, but meant so much!

We still have some of the scatter ashes left, just trying to decide where to go next. It might not be for everyone, but it has been a great comfort to us. Even picking up the different containers at the funeral home--they put everything in a shopping bag. Given how much Mom loved to shop, it just felt fitting somehow.

 

[ImDMous]

Forget the pendant.

This is what I'm doing with my ashes! Each of my kids gets one!

https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-urns-for-ashes/personal-cremation-urns-ashes/

OK, the heads are pretty creepy. BUT Superman or Indiana Jones.... Hmm...

 

[bookgirl]

On my Facebook this morning a friend shared a photo from a woman who lost a butterfly pendant at our local county fair and is hoping to get it back. She said it is a "cremation pendant" and has some of her grandmother's ashes inside and she is "beside herself for having lost her." I do hope whoever found the pendant will turn it in at the fair office, so the woman can hopefully get it back.

But. Would YOU wear something like that? I would not, as I would be so afraid of having what happened to this woman at the fair happen to me. I would feel terrible for "losing my loved one again." If I were to receive ashes of a loved one, I would want them in a small box to keep at home.

No, those things are creepy. I don't even understand the people who keep ashes in their houses. I know it comforts some people, but not in my house and not on my person. EVER.

My mom wants me to keep hers but I've told her I will buy her a urn condo, at the mausoleum in my town you can get a small glass fronted "plot" for cremation ashes.

 

[bookgirl]

Remember... they aren't ashes. It's bone.

Yeah because that's so much LESS creepy. Still a no.

 

[fly girl]

I'm not a big jewelry person so most likely I would not get one. But I can see some people wanting that sense of connection.

Both my parents will be cremated. I have to spread my Dad, my Mom will be in an urn (a normal one, no head! Lol) in my house. I don't find it creepy, but I do find being buried in the cold ground rotting really unappealing.

 

[slo]

Forget the pendant.

This is what I'm doing with my ashes! Each of my kids gets one!

https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-urns-for-ashes/personal-cremation-urns-ashes/

LOL!! Those heads are sooooo......creepy!!!!



On a more serious note.....

My grandma and I were very close and she was not cremated.
If she was, I would not wear her ashes on me, because that would just seem awkward for me.
I do wear her jewelry all the time, which to me, is like having her with me.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

I looked into this a while back, not because I was interested in doing it but because I was curious about the process. My research left me thinking that these companies are more scam than anything else.

This is a link to a Pricescope discussion about memorial diamonds. The last post on the first page, a copy and paste of an article titled "Dead Dad's a Diamond!" is pretty informative.

http://www.pricescope.com/forum/lab...cremains-anyone-do-this-need-info-t87521.html

 

[wenrob]

Heck no.

I have to buck up and scatter my moms cremated remains, I definetly wouldnt be carrying it around.

My belief is my loved ones are around me. Their "vessel" is in the ground or scattered, but it isnt them.

This is me. That is no longer my loved one, that person is gone. I don't visit the cemetery either. I'd much rather look at pics, read old cards etc. So, a big no from me.

 

[Meriweather]

Not sure I would wear ashes, but having ashes made into jewelry is something I would do.
My mother and father are gone and buried in their small town cemetary, so can't do it with them. Hope I don't get the chance to decide about it with someone else.
I do have pet ashes, in urns sitting on my desk.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Would I wear a cremation pendant?
When someone dies and moves on, what is left behind is an empty shell. As such, I see no need to wear or keep anything containing someone's ashes. But I have nothing against others that find comfort in it.

 

[elaine amj]

Forget the pendant.

This is what I'm doing with my ashes! Each of my kids gets one!

https://www.cremationsolutions.com/cremation-urns-for-ashes/personal-cremation-urns-ashes/

I can't believe I actually clicked on this link! LOL - that was majorly creepy.

As for me, I really don't like the idea of ashes, so no. I do want to be cremated - they can put the urn in the cemetery or I like the idea of planting it with a tree. My stepfather recently passed and he was cremated. A scattering the ashes ceremony has been organized by the funeral home but they gave my mom the ashes in a couple of bag, we had to carry it (in our car) to the location - it was super weird. I didn't feel it was appropriate to put the bags down so I ended up holding one and my mom held the other. She talked to the bag....and I felt desperately uncomfortable with the thought of holding the other bag. Also, one bag was "bones" and the other was "other parts" (like the casket, I think). We went on a boat and scattered them into a river that led to the sea in a small shipping port. The actual scattering was rather cool since the funeral home brought a big bag of flower petals too.