scattering ashes
Final farewell ritual
Scattering ashes is the practice of dispersing a person's cremated remains in a meaningful location rather than burying or storing them.
People scatter ashes at sea, in gardens, from mountaintops, or wherever the deceased had a connection: We scattered her ashes at the lake where she spent her summers.
The act often serves as a final farewell ritual.
- cremationBurning the deceased
- urnDecorative container for ashes
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- windAir current outdoors
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
ocean · open water · remains · grief · farewell · saying goodbye · dust · release · seaside · cliff · mountain top · garden · remembrance · loved one · spreading · mourning · beloved · tribute
- burial lawburial plots, burial grounds, burial records, disinterment, home burial
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- mourning customsfuneral, funeral service, wake, visitation, burial
- death ritesfuneral, cremation, burial, natural burial, sea burial
scattering ashesburial
Placing deceased underground
interment · entombment · earth burial · green burial · sea burial
scattering ashesembalming
Preserving dead bodies chemically
mummification · cryopreservation · plastination · sky burial