I don't even like using the word urn to be quite honest, it just sounds a bit morbid.
This is a piece of my grandmother that I keep with me all the time.
Over the past decade or so, ashes creations have started to appear.
I look at it and I just remember all the good times we had.
In Classical Greece and Rome, you had both burial and cremation practices taking place.
Of course in other parts of the world, traditional aspects in Buddhism - again cremation.
Of course the Jews, never cremation, burial normative. Islam, burial.
But of course, long before this India was a cremation culture.
And once Christianity became established in the UK... ...and that continued really until the mid-19th Century when, with industrialisation and the rise of big towns, big cities, church yards got full fast.
The miasmas, the gases that were rising from putrefied bodies were considered to be very unhealthy.
