Sea Breeze
"Where is mom?. He said her ashes were in the backyard lawnmower shed."
this business of saving a cremated persons " ashes" ( plus coffin wood ash and crematorium sweepings ) really creeps me out.
When a dead person is buried does someone chop off one of the thumbs for the bereaved to keep ?
When my ( late ) father moved into a care home, i cleared his house out and sold it. I found a cardboard box containing a wooden casket with my mothers ashes in it. Ive still got it in my garden shed somewhere.
After my fathers cremation i never went to collect the ashes. He lives on in my memory.