Ashes spread in WDW

[TravelMom]

The poster who indicated the relative size of the cremains was right, and also, despite TV sitcom scenarios where someone tries to scatter 'ashes' and they are blown in their face, etc etc - the cremains usually have identifiable chunks of bone matter in them. They are not 'ashes' in the sense that most people think of.

So I'm going to weigh in with the people who think this is inappropriate (on private property) and creepy (I don't really want to see a chunk of ANYONE's bone while I'm at a theme park, unless it's Madame Leota's).

For the record, since I love to travel, I am leaving a sum of money in my will to my 20 closest friends to take a trip in my memory. And I'm having my cremains split up into 20 different baggies so they can each spread me someone around the world. NOT on private property, and NOT where anyone is going to trip over a chunk of my tibia!

 

[Daxx]

To me this isn´t gross, there´s nothing gross about ashes.

It´s creepy.

No -- what would be creepy is a huge Mouse-aleum that you could see as you drove around WDW. What's creepy would be propping up Uncle Al in one of the dining room chairs in the Haunted Mansion and pretending he was one of the 99 Happy Haunts. What would be creepy would be to sit dead Auntie Muriel in the TOT hotel lobby sofa.

There are far more creepier things to do in WDW than spreading harmless ashes.

What's creepy about it? If my loved one's favorite place was a restaurant and it gave me comfort to leave a bit of them around the front of the restaurant, what's wrong w/that? Who am I hurting? It's not like I'm dragging the embalmed body to the restaurant and sitting it in a chair to eat w/us! Now THAT would be creepy!

 

[Daxx]

the cremains usually have identifiable chunks of bone matter in them. They are not 'ashes' in the sense that most people think of.

So, then it's possible to pick out the bone chunks and take the powdery stuff, right? So, people ... if you're gonna scatter your loved ones ashes around the Kingdoms or on rides (as opposed to waterways and land-areas), take out the bone chunks before you do so b/c it might queeve other people out if they stumble on some while riding HM, SM, etc.!

There ... problem solved! Carry on!

 

[momtimesone]

I have heard enough rumors on why I should not touch the water on the jungle cruise,Its a small world, pirates etc but spreading ones ashes in the water takes the cake. Never again DONT TOUCH THE WATER

 

[disneyfan67]

LOL you won't have to worry about this at all. As mentioned earlier about Disney Cleanliness:

If anyone put ashes on a path you'll be walking on, then the landfill will be the only place to pay any respects...

How true!

Yeah, those gas powered super vacs do a great job, plus they hose down the sidewalks/streets as well. Cremated remains look like charcoal ash that you find at the bottom of a Weber grill and clean up just as easy. Ash is ash, regardless of where it comes from and all ends up in the same place, usually in a garbage bag and in a landfill. The only way the ash would kind of remain in one place, is to dump it in Bay lake or Seven Seas lagoon and let it settle to the bottom with the rest of the of sediment, mud, and God knows what is down there.

 

[daisax]

I have heard enough rumors on why I should not touch the water on the jungle cruise,Its a small world, pirates etc but spreading ones ashes in the water takes the cake. Never again

Ashes have been burned at temps of thousands of degrees... they're more sanitary than anything else that's in the jungle cruise water !

 

[budbeerlady]

I think other posters are right, disney is missing out on a gold mine here.

They could do a boat memorial service on one of the lakes, they could pour the ashes inside something like those silly leave a legacy tile stone things. Your picture and your ashes all in one! The bricks with your name on it, make a hollow spot inside those, put the name and dates on it and pave something!

Or someplace on property they could make a nice natural type memorial garden (maybe someplace with a good view of the MK?) that for a price you could deposit your loved ones ashes into. Have some flowers, a couple of statues with some benches for reflection. That I would be very interested in than just being blown to the wind and cleaned up by a cleaning crew. I have horrid luck and I dont think it would change for my ashes.

 

[melomouse]

Ashes have been burned at temps of thousands of degrees... they're more sanitary than anything else that's in the jungle cruise water !

You are exactly right daisax!

Also, the bones are ground up if there are any fragments whatsoever after cremation. This is done before cremains are handed over to the family.There ARE no bone fragments.

Unfortunately, misconceptions abound with this most taboo of subjects!!

 

[mom2of2]

Last year I saw a woman spreading some ashes up at Cinderella's Wishing Well over the fence.

 

[Eljay]

I'm sure we would all be shocked to find out what goes on at WDW at any given time. If it gives someone comfort to scatter ashes, as long as it's discreet and not underfoot, what the heck.

As far as a cemetery or mouse-a-leum, there is 40-something square miles of property. I'm sure they could pick a place where the rest of us would never know about it. A private access road, maybe a guard gate, lots of trees for camoflage.

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

Since I doubt that any one of my family would be willing to take my ashes to DW since I cannot get them to accompany me while living I have a seond choice.

I am having my ashes, bumps and all, scattered right outside my bil's picture window, overlooking a huge meadow. I sit in his big comfortable chair and watch the wild life from there and figure I will be a constant reminder for ever after.

BTW, has anyone but me ever wondered if the volcano in the River of Time (Mexico) might not be a secret DW crematorium? Disney weddings, followed by Disney honeymoons, as well as many conceptions, anniversary and birthday celebrations etc. Seems to me that Disney funerals would be a logical conclusion.

Slightly Goofy

 

[wen8jr]

How morbid!

Disney is for children and families!!! I would like to think children can "play" in and around Disney without the possiblity of getting into human ashes.

What is this world coming to? I wish I had never read this forum as I'll never look at dirt or dust and feel the same again.

 

[Cool-Beans]

A friend of mine has a list of where to drop a little of my ashes around the World. She better do it, or I'll haunt her.

The "ashes" I have seen aren't like cigarette or fire ashes...but there were big old hunks of bone, either. Nobody is going to be crunching my tibial tuberosity underfoot or triping over my greater trochanter or anything.

We held bones in Anatomy many times and it never grossed me out. Plus, bones that have been in the kind of heat required for cremation would be cleaner than most of what you'd find in the World. I don't see the big. But, that's me.

 

[mom2of2]

How morbid!

Disney is for children and families!!! I would like to think children can "play" in and around Disney without the possiblity of getting into human ashes.

What is this world coming to? I wish I had never read this forum as I'll never look at dirt or dust and feel the same again.

I seriously doubt that anyone would spread ashes anywhere that someone would "play in" or step on or anything else. The whole purpose of spreading ashes is so that they STAY THERE not get walked on, vaccumed up or anything else.

Personally I think the rose garden would be a great place.

 

[Tinks1984]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'pixie dust' eh?

I don't mind people scattering ashes discreatly, I don't see any harm in this. But the day Disney starts holding funerals at WDW, then that''s the day The World has lost it!

 

[MrDroopy]

Why did this conversation make me think of having my loved ones mix my ashes with the Orange Juice found at the Mickey's Character Breakfast? Am I just a really terrible person?

 

[dzorn]

I just told DH to put my ashes in the seven seas lagoon and his response, "I ain't going back to Disney World without you!"
So nice to know he cares.

You'd be going just not comming back.

Denise in MI

 

[mmcguire]

Much as I love WDW, there may sadly come a day when it's not there anymore. It would be great to have my ashes spend the next 100+ years whooping it up at WDW, but I don't want them spend the rest of eternity in an abandoned theme park or swamp land.

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

I certainly don't want to be cremated, so just put my skeleton in POTC , you know where they have the other skeletons,(I dont' think I can deal with Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me, day in and day out ), so bury me in the cemetary scene at the HM.

Suzanne

 

[TravelMom]

"Why did this conversation make me think of having my loved ones mix my ashes with the Orange Juice found at the Mickey's Character Breakfast?"

Makes me think of Keith Richard's recent quote where he said he snorted some of his father's ashes. And hey, thanks to Pirates III, Keef is a Disney star too!