where would you scatter ashes?

It must be like people soup...

In Leicester the Asian community have been using the River Soar for sending ashes downstream along with floral tributes. This has been going on for decades and they are even provided with platforms going out into the river for mourners.

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Apart from the unpleasant practicalities of scattering cremated ashes into the sea next to other holidaymakers it was inappropriate for cultural reasons. Turkey is a Muslim country and cremation is forbidden under Islamic law.

My Muslim neighbour refused to enter my house recently when she realised I had returned from the funeral director’s with the ashes of a family member. She was very uneasy at the prospect of being under the same roof . She politely informed me she’d have to stay away till I’d made the final trip with the ashes 6 weeks later.

Turkey itself is actually a secular country, although the vast majority of the population are Muslims.

Far out to sea is fine but near the shore - no!

There are firms which will take you far enough out so you do not inconvenience others.

Or do as they did on "What We Did on our Holiday"!

Apart from the unpleasant practicalities of scattering cremated ashes into the sea next to other holidaymakers it was inappropriate for cultural reasons. Turkey is a Muslim country and cremation is forbidden under Islamic law.

My Muslim neighbour refused to enter my house recently when she realised I had returned from the funeral director’s with the ashes of a family member. She was very uneasy at the prospect of being under the same roof . She politely informed me she’d have to stay away till I’d made the final trip with the ashes 6 weeks later.

Puts me off eating fish (which I like very much).

Scattering into the sea is eco friendly.
You can have a marine coral set up, to become part and parcel of the sea.

You are not allowed to just scatter ashes anywhere.

You have to have the permission of the landowner or check with the environmental rules if it is a National Park or other similar location.

They are not good for the environment.

Nowhere.
I think it is a horrible thing to do.
I saw a family scattering ashes into the wind on a hilltop and we unwittingly walked through them. I thought it was smoke.

That's what we did with my mum's ashes.
My brother in law took a broom, to make sure her boat thing didn't float back

Yes, the above examples tell the true story of 'scattering' I don't think it is either dignified nor particularly healthy.

I know someone who left instructions for their ashes scattering in a nearby river. One of their children obtained an eco 'boat' on-line where the ashes could be safely transferred to a bio-degradable box which was then floated on the river and was filmed drifting slowly downstream.

I thought it was a fitting way to honour the deceased's wishes whilst not ending up with a faceful of powder.

Internment in the local cemetery or crematorium is the best way I think.

I do think that it was totally inappropriate. Maybe if they had chosen to go during the night it would have been more sensible. But the idea of adults and children swimming and paddling in the ashes is really not acceptable.

I hate the idea of scattering ashes anywhere, I always wonder when people go up on hills etc and toss them into the wind - who's washing they could end up on or even through someones open window!

I can see why locals would be appalled by it - cremation isn't really a thing in Turkey. I do know people who have scattered ashes over there, but it's either been done very respectfully at a site with local co-operation or at a boat out at sea. And it certainly doesn't surprise me which bar in Marmaris was involved.

nor me

It might be safe but I wouldn’t fancy swimming among people’s ashes.