nanandjim
Former Member
I want to keep my husband's ashes with me if he should die before I do. I see nothing odd about wanting to keep a loved close to you. If I have my husband's ashes on my mantel, I think that it will make me feel like his spirit is with me.Why is that odd?
I have my father's ashes on my mantelpiece in my living room and he passed in 2001. From what I understand, there are many people that retain the ashes within their families as opposed to burying them or spreading the ashes somewhere...
Even Robert DeNiro in Meet the Parents had his mother's ashes on his mantel until Ben Stiller knocked them over.