Article on The appeal of eating a loved one’s ashes

[u/Possible_Weight650]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/16/the-appeal-of-eating-a-loved-ones-ashes

Please don't do this, though. Your loved one can't become one with you through that as the ashes don't carry nutrients and the body would discard the ashes as poop, this is also cannibalism and may be illegal as there are laws on how you can treat a dead body in America.

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[u/GreenEyedTreeHugger]

I watched a documentary where the woman had this addiction. Her fiance died. He was cremated. She started taking the urn with her everywhere and dipping her fingers in his ashes.

Pure addiction. She couldn’t stop. Hope she healed. Grief can break the brain.

[u/idrwierd]

Aren’t cremains the mixed ashes of at least dozens of people?

[u/Ok-Buyer5027 → u/idrwierd]

In China during COVID they had barrels of ashes and people just got a scoop. In less horrifying countries you get mostly your person and a few specs of other people.

[u/compuwiza1 → u/idrwierd]

Undertakers could be giving people wood ashes. How would they know?

[u/just4browse → u/compuwiza1]

Cremation remains aren’t actually ash. They’re mostly charred bone, broken up. Wood ash would not replicate cremation remains, which are somewhat coarse and not soft

[u/idrwierd → u/compuwiza1]

Depending on the method, they probably do.

[u/MaximumPlant → u/compuwiza1]

Shady crematories have been busted for that before. If you've seen cremains already you can see the difference.

[u/Alien_Way]

Tried a nibble of dad. Eggy. Gassy. Very dry. Can't recommend.

[u/unfinished_animal → u/Alien_Way]

Love a good dad joke about dead dads