4 ms·
What people do with ashes is completely unenforceable. How can anyone stop somebody from putting remains wherever they like? How would anyone know? Technically
by angdis 11y ago
What people do with ashes is completely unenforceable. How can anyone stop somebody from putting remains wherever they like? How would anyone know?
Technically, they're not "ashes" but "cremains" and are composed almost entirely calcium and salts which is very different from ash (the residue of a fire burning).
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoCorrect, a huge amount is ground-up bone matter. For some reason though, society is more comfortable with the thought of grandma being incinerated than pulverised in a crusher, even though a cremation involves both, so it's not well known. ;)