AbbieNormal
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I am very familiar with cremation jewelry because I have lived exclusively within the military community for not only almost two decades but over 10 years of those were lived during the war(s).
To be honest I think nothing of it. I knew someone that had a small bit her Husband's ashes in an absolutely beautiful necklace and she said it was so that she could "always have him close to her heart".
But we each have our own opinions. That is what makes WS so interesting
All JMHO.
OT but my cousin lost her daughter at 16 to suicide and for a long time could not deal with it...I don't think she knew about cremation jewelry (and neither did I cos I would have told her about it). She came to my town for a visit and she went into a small boutique jewelry store and commissioned the jeweler to make a puffed heart necklace and had something engraved on it, can't remember what. Since she lived out of town she had me check on the progress of it, it took many months. She paid $3800.00 for the heart, which had an opening and she poured some of her daughters ashes in it, and we superglued it closed after she filled it up. She spent another $500 on a chain
She says it brings her peace. I say whatever eases the pain, go for it.
As we were looking at her daughters ashes for the very first time, and were spooning some out to put into the heart, she was crying and said "I wonder what part of her this was?"
This was 3 years after she died.