Scattering Loved One's Ashes at WDW?

[QueenElinor]

Not sure what to think about this:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney...orite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes-1540390229

Folks in the comments section mentioned having a memorial area set aside. That might be a thoughtful compromise.

If you can't get through on that link, copy the headline and paste it in a search engine or try the link at Morningstar:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/do...-a-favorite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes.html

 

[Cbtexan04]

This thread could have gone in such a different direction.

 

[QueenElinor]

It still has the potential.

Edit: Oh, I see what you mean. When it was still in "Theme Park Attractions and Strategies."
Hehe, yep. Oops.
I could see why it was moved here.

 

[Ds4angels]

Need a subscription to read the article. I think I've heard this has been a problem for a while. (people putting ashes in WDW).

 

[GPC0321]

That's so weird.

I want to be taxidermied and worked into Haunted Mansion. Maybe rigged up so I spring out of a coffin when the Doombuggies are cruising by. I'll finally have achieved my goal of "working" at WDW.

 

[tex1989]

This was a topic discussed 15 years ago when I first found the DIS. I guess I understand why someone would want this but then again it could very easily get out of hand.

After all they are human remains and there are a ton of regulations concerning them.

I was the President of a Dad's Club ( we owned the fields and complex where they played Little League, Girls Softball and Football) and was approached by a guy who had spent years there with his kids and grandkids and worked on the fields and donated tons of money and he asked me if his ashes could be dumped from a plane over the complex. Had to think on that one for a while. In the end we said yes but when he died the his children agreed to just burying his ashes in the outfield.

 

[GPC0321]

Yeah, I can't quite get why people want their deceased loved one's remains spread around a public place.

When my brother died, we had his funeral service on the deck of the tall ship the Elizabeth II in Manteo, NC. He had worked on the ship as a member of the crew/living history cast when he was a teenager. He loved sailing and being on the water, and just lived for it. After the service, his "pall-bearers" rowed his ashes and the minister out to the middle of the sound in the ship's boat ("The Chalice") just before sunset and spread them in the water (the wind caught them and fanned them out beautifully). It was devastating to lose him (he was only 25 years old), but I've always felt that we "did it right" when it came to that way of saying goodbye. He would have approved.

That said, it was only a small portion of his ashes that went into a huge body of water. The idea of human ashes floating around in WDW somewhere still skeeves me out.

 

[QueenElinor]

Need a subscription to read the article. I think I've heard this has been a problem for a while. (people putting ashes in WDW).

Thank you for letting me know, I have amended the original post. I got there via the Drudge Report. But if you copy the headline and put it in a search engine, you can usually find a link that will take you there. This link at Morningstar seems to work:
https://www.morningstar.com/news/do...-a-favorite-spot-to-scatter-family-ashes.html

 

[QueenElinor]

duplicate post

 

[QueenElinor]

This was a topic discussed 15 years ago when I first found the DIS. I guess I understand why someone would want this but then again it could very easily get out of hand.

After all they are human remains and there are a ton of regulations concerning them.

I was the President of a Dad's Club ( we owned the fields and complex where they played Little League, Girls Softball and Football) and was approached by a guy who had spent years there with his kids and grandkids and worked on the fields and donated tons of money and he asked me if his ashes could be dumped from a plane over the complex. Had to think on that one for a while. In the end we said yes but when he died the his children agreed to just burying his ashes in the outfield.

That is sweet. An actual Angel in the Outfield.

 

[danielocha30]

It is my understanding that all rides will at some point cleaned completely so if someone get away with it let’s say at the Haunted Mansion ( popular one for this purpose ) those are going to be cleaned and will end on a landfill. Disney even do the cleaning on the moot around the castle. Unless they are spread on the soil, all ashes sooner than later will be dumped from the park.

 

[FigmentSpark]

I think it's incredibly disrespectful.... my opinion.

 

[ricktib]

I got into it on here several years ago with a lady who was set on dumping ashes into the water in POTC. She felt it was her right as a "DVC owner".