A memorial made from cremated ashes is simply the ultimate way to keep your loved one close to your heart. Here are 15 creative and unique memorial ideas made using actual cremated remains. These include decorative accents, jewelry, and even trees.
Oddbits
Oddbits is our wordplay on “obits.” Interesting tidbits, intriguing oddities, and some morbid humor about funerals, cremation, death, and more.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Book Review)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory is an entertaining and at times thoughtful book about one of the most tucked-away but necessary jobs in the funeral industry: The Crematory Operator.
Written by Caitlin Doughty, who worked as a crematory operator and is now an “alternative” funeral director, author, and YouTube personality, the theme of the book is not really cremation or funerals or gory details, though it definitely includes that.
The main theme is death itself. Specifically, how our culture interacts with death (or tries to avoid it), and what things might be like if we looked death – in all of its messiness – straight in the face.
Everyday Items You Can Use As A Cremation Urn
You don’t need to buy an urn. In fact, there are plenty of everyday items you probably have in your house that can be used as a cremation urn.
How Weddings and Funerals Are Surprisingly Similar
It might be a weird thought, but have you ever noticed how weddings and funerals are surprisingly similar?
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10 Great Books about Funerals, Death, & Grief
In no particular order, here are 10 great books about funerals, death, and grief.
40+ Funny Quotes for Cremation Urns
There is a certain type of person who will always be remembered with a smile and a laugh. Their sense of humor, joy, and wit require a cremation urn with a funny quote or saying on it.
19 of the Most Bizarre Funeral Pics You’ll Ever See
Funerals, cemeteries, and funeral homes are just plain weird.
Really, anything having to do with death is bizarre. When there is a death, there’s sadness, humor, peace, bitterness, pragmatism, expensive fees, cheapskates, tradition, alternative contemplation, memories, and individuality.
As unique as each person is, so is their death. And as unique as each person’s family is, so is their funeral. Here are some bizarre funeral pics we’ve discovered in our time in the funeral industry.
3 Baffling Funeral Riddles
So, you like riddles, eh? Here are three of our favorite riddles about funerals, death, and cemeteries that will stump you for sure. Answers to each riddle follow; once you get the answer to each riddle, pass them on to your friends!
Make memorial garden stones with loved one’s ashes
A recent commenter mentioned that they were planning on using their loved one’s ashes to make memorial garden stones, because gardening was one of the things they loved most.
I immediately thought, What a unique and personal! Kudos to the family for creativity and for honoring their loved one’s memory in a special way.
36 Hilarious Mortician Humor Memes
Morticians have heard and seen it all. In such a deeply emotional and personal profession, you have to just sit back and laugh every now and then with a little mortician humor.