My thoughts are that anytime someone has a loved one who died, if you can use any word that might make it easier to bear, than you are doing the decent thing.

When I was at my mother's funeral, I was standing at the casket remembering times we shared together, and some old woman came up, and blurted out "She's bloated!"

It was all I could do to refrain from saying, "Yeah, but she's dead, what's your excuse?".


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For a while there, and possibly still, there was a reloader who would mix the deceased ashes into shotgun hunting loads. Considering how much I've enjoyed bird hunting over the years, I thought it was a fine idea and may do so yet. OTOH, I doubt that I can make the reloads with my ashes and, if I was shooting them, I'd sure want to be shooting downwind.

I have known of some long time Black Powder shooters that when they died, they were cremated and when time came for their memorial service one of their requests was to have a small amount of their ashes mixerd with some black powder and then loaded into their favorite rifle, topped with just some wadding and at the end of the service the rifle would be fired.

Hey, I've got a black powder canon, now that would be going out with a BANG.

Hey, I have heard of all sorts of ways folks that requested to be cremated wanted some of their ashes handled.

Just recently learned about a guy I used to work with requested his ashes be taken to his favorite fishing spot and spread out.

One of the guys that worked at the Ft.Worth Zoo during part of the time I worked there requested that some of his ashes be taken to Africa and spread out around a watering hole/feeding area elephants frequented. He had worked with elephants for several years and that was one of his wishes. It took some fenagling one a couple of peoples part, but it got done.

Gato,the name of the company was Holy Smoke.I heard the interview with the owner on the radio.You are correct;they will put your ashes in cases (either shotshell or brass,calibre specific) the guy who started the company was a bird shooter as well as his father + he had the idea that they could continue to hunt together even after his death.; 10 boxes of 12 G. shells =10 more years of hunting with his father.You either get it or you don't.The price posted then was about $800.00 .that is above + beyond the cremation.

As a semi related addendum to this;I read a few years ago about a duck decoy carver in New England ( an artist of the 1st class)who passed + after cremation had his ashes deposited in one of his decoys along w/ contact info.+ put to sea.Several months later there was a reply from England.Pretty neat I think!