I wouldn't usually wish this on anyone, and sorry if it might offend (I am, as you know, an amateur b-squad observationalist) but sakes aLIVE is urn-checking-outing the dumbest thing you can do? I was apprehensive enough with family due to the sensitive nature of it but outside of a clown handing you a balloon before you go in the "showroom" there could be little more ridiculous outside of...okay, here's a list of potentials so you all are prepared. Keep in mind, you have an image of what an urn is, BUT you can also get cremains:
Made into diamonds
Put into Lava Lamps
Put into a light up night light globe
Put in Biodegradable heart-shaped bags
Placed in the low...low end model. Which is plastic and looks like an office garbage can
Placed in a, gah, it's supposed to be a suspended Jesus but my brother said "It looks like Han Solo suspended in carbonite..." He was right.
Made into a door stop or garden marker
And my favorite?
A teddy bear. A $130 teddy bear.*
We cried a lot, but I think we also laughed a lot too which is what he would have done at the silly nature of it all. And it helped a little. It was needed.
*It was in the kids section, but perched next to the "formal" urns made it a little unnerving yo. Moda and I took turns trying to unscrew the head to see if that's where the cremains were supposed to go.
**I still hate the term cremains. And if it wasn't for "Six Feet Under" I'd never had known it.
5 comments:
Don't forget the bronze beer cooler.
It is an absurd process, for sure. They tried to sell my Mom and I a $2,000 pine coffin for my Dad to be cremated in. We ended up going with the simple yet dignified cardboard container. Dad was pleased.
Who said "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone"
Not true. You have a whole lot of people to weep with you so keep on seeing the irony of life so we can all laugh a bit too. I really love you. So did he. xxx
OMG, it's not Mike and Pat and it never will be again. Expletive etc. I hate this.
Mom
I saw on Tattoo Highway on A&E where they put some of the ashes in tattoo ink for a memorial tattoo. It was pretty amazing. My thoughts are with you, Mikey.
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