With an increase in the number of cremations, the question of what to do with a loved one’s ashes is a growing area of debate. If your loved one hasn’t left specific instructions for a resting place and your family can’t agree on a location for a scattering, you may be considering other options, such as sharing the ashes with family or keeping them in the family home. But is it possible to keep ashes in your garden and if so, how do you go about it?
The ashes may be provided to you by the funeral director or crematorium in what is rather bluntly referred to as a standard returns urn or container. These are often plastic containers, which are rarely very pretty and certainly won’t be an attractive resting place if you intend to hold on to the ashes in a prominent location around the home or garden. The standard returns are provided purely as a means of transferring ashes from the crematorium back to the family and are not really intended for long-term storage or display. Their ‘open mouth’ design is not even very practical for a dignified scattering. Many families will therefore opt to transfer the remains into something more aesthetically pleasing or more practical for scattering or storage.
Many funeral directors nowadays prefer to return ashes in a more attractive or practical container for scattering or temporary storage, such as a Scatter Tube. Scatter Tubes were created by our Chairman, Richard Bush, as an attractive and more eco-friendly alternative to plastic returns containers and they come in a wide range of designs and sizes. You can often specify the return of your loved one’s ashes in Scatter Tubes when you arrange the funeral if you are intending to scatter or have not yet decided on what to do with the ashes. Speak to your Funeral Director to ask if this is an option.
With an increase in the number of cremations, the question of what to do with a loved one’s ashes is a growing area of debate. If your loved one hasn’t left specific instructions for a resting place and your family can’t agree on a location for a scattering, you may be considering other options, such as sharing the ashes with family or keeping them in the family home. But is it possible to keep ashes in your garden and if so, how do you go about it?
The ashes may be provided to you by the funeral director or crematorium in what is rather bluntly referred to as a standard returns urn or container. These are often plastic containers, which are rarely very pretty and certainly won’t be an attractive resting place if you intend to hold on to the ashes in a prominent location around the home or garden. The standard returns are provided purely as a means of transferring ashes from the crematorium back to the family and are not really intended for long-term storage or display. Their ‘open mouth’ design is not even very practical for a dignified scattering. Many families will therefore opt to transfer the remains into something more aesthetically pleasing or more practical for scattering or storage.
Many funeral directors nowadays prefer to return ashes in a more attractive or practical container for scattering or temporary storage, such as a Scatter Tube. Scatter Tubes were created by our Chairman, Richard Bush, as an attractive and more eco-friendly alternative to plastic returns containers and they come in a wide range of designs and sizes. You can often specify the return of your loved one’s ashes in Scatter Tubes when you arrange the funeral if you are intending to scatter or have not yet decided on what to do with the ashes. Speak to your Funeral Director to ask if this is an option.