Cremation Ash FactsIn May of 1934, when Einstein's stepdaughter Ilse was dying of tuberculosis in Paris, her mother, Einstein's second wife, Elsa, traveled overseas to tend to her. After Ilse died, Elsa had her daughter's ashes sewn into a cushion which she snuck back into the United States under her clothing. She kept this ash pillow for sleeping, in order to feel close to her daughter on nightly basis until her own death in December of 1936.
General Patton’s wife had her ashes scattered his grave at Normandy
98% of the dead in Japan are cremated.
In the Hindu religion, the oldest son pushes the button for the cremation chamber.
Someone has added cremated remains to buck shot bullets.
Walt Disney's themepark, Disneyland, in Anaheim, California has shut down the Pirates of the Carribean ride several times when people have been spotted dumping ashes into the water. Another favorite spreading ground is the Haunted Mansion cemetery.
An unknown male visitor stops at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA and tells the doorman it was his father's favorite hotel and "dream to be buried" there. The man then handed doorman a $100 tip to "take a little walk" while he "spread the ashes of his father along the hotel's flower beds", just off Mason and California Streets. The man said the Fairmont "was as close to heaven [as his father] ever got in this life."
Brown, W. (2010). At the Fairmont, it was ashes to ashes, dust to. San Francisco Chronicle.
A woman travels the globe, "spreading her husband's ashes in more than 20 places. A growing number of people are opting to cremate their loved ones in order to scatter their ashes -- a way of prolonging their goodbyes."
"62 years to the day since Mahatma Ghandi's assassination, ashes kept by a friend of the family for decades were finally sprinkled onto the waters of the Indian Ocean."
Celebrity, Alistair Cooke's family secretly scattered his ashes in Central Park, New York. Fearful that they'd be caught and stopped, they divided up the ashes into several paper cups. Then the group spread out and slowly dumped the ashes around as they walked through the park.
Grandson and Space fan sends grandmother's ashes up in a meteoroloical baloon at 100,000ft into the stratosphere.
In the film series, Death the Trip of a Lifetime, a man, Joe Cannon, discusses how he had his wife, Terry Cannon's head cryogenically frozen, and the rest of her body cremated. With her cremains he had capsules made; he took one with every meal.
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