#cremains

[shiftythrifting]

A roll of USPS stickers meant for shipping ashes. There's enough here to last me a lifetime, and some after.

[therogueduchess]

Hey errybuggy,

Have any of you ever had cremains jewelry made, or know someone who has? Are there any places that are particularly good, and conversely ones to watch out for? What even is the process?

TIA

[publiccollectors]

New Publication: Angelo's Ashes -OR- To Live and Die in L.A.

$5.00 [PURCHASE]

Public Collectors booklet #67, for those who have been counting. The interior text, which is alternately irreverent, painful, funny, and angry, is probably better experienced as a surprise so this listing is deliberately short on scans. From the back cover:

ANGELO’S ASHES -OR- TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. tells the story of how I handled the end of life arrangements for my friend Angelo. This booklet consists of a series of Facebook posts that I made in the months following Angelo’s death. I learned of his death from his landlord who had my phone number because I was Angelo’s emergency contact. Angelo did not leave a will and had no next of kin. 

I live in Chicago and Angelo died in Los Angeles. The bureaucracy of dealing with his death was intense and social media provided a place to vent as well as collect advice from friends. I did not want Angelo to receive an anonymous burial in a mass grave so I had to file an Ex Parte Petition to claim his body, have him cremated, and obtain a death certificate.

I knew Angelo for roughly 25 years. He collaborated with the group I’m part of, Temporary Services, on the project and book Prisoners’ Inventions. I was his closest and primary friend. For most of the time I knew Angelo, he was incarcerated. Two years before his death, Angelo was released from prison, in part because of my advocacy and promise to the state that I could care for him. Our friendship, until after his release when we finally met in person, was based solely on postal correspondence and a couple phone calls.

Angelo worked for the post office and dealt with prison administrators for years. He was no stranger to tedious procedures. I think he would have enjoyed this booklet. I hope my writing makes things easier for anyone else who might find themselves in a similar situation. 

 — Marc Fischer

[nawilla]

Dom is back with her family

I picked up Dom’s cremains today, along with the pawprint the funeral home took of her (and they put a small baggie of fur on the back of the pawprint).  I will definitely be calling this service again when the time comes for M and N.  (They actually started as a human funeral home and still handle humans, so it may be used for me too, who knows).

I’m going to put D on the mantle for now, and then later I think I will hang her pawprint in the cat room and maybe get a shelf for the cremains in the living room so she will be where she loved to spend her days.

[etakeh]

Image: youtube video comment by Henry Wise reading 

I think I'd want to be cremated and have my love ones do whatever they think I'd want with the ashes. BUT my only request would be that whatever they do, they always save a little bit for later. That's in case they think of something cooler to do with them later. I don't want them to have to live with the regret of coming up with a great idea after it's too late and they're out of ashes.

[emmaklee]

(via Resting Reef Turns Human Cremains Into Living Ocean Habitats | Moss and Fog)

[charlesreeza]

Cinerary Urn, marble, mid-1st to 2nd century, Roman, Imperial period

St. Louis Art Museum

[mortmicpodcast]

Found in the wild once, feel it's apropos after our last episodes on alternative ash options. I guess bath bombs missed our list 🤣

- Red