Pet ashes in my coffin - why not?

no1catman

I went on an interesting tour of the City Crematorium yesterday, very illuminating.
Found out the site deals with burials as well. But when I expressed the wish that I would like my cat's ashes buried with me in the coffin, they said that no that wouldn't be possible - they'd need to go to a separate Pet Cemetery.

I not asking for a mini-plot just for them - that I could understand. Just perplexed by the reason for not allowing cremated pet remains (in a container) to be put in the coffin?
No, problem with human cremated remains, anything else no!?

Thoughts/comments.

Yorkshireman99

no1catman wrote: »

I went on an interesting tour of the City Crematorium yesterday, very illuminating.
Found out the site deals with burials as well. But when I expressed the wish that I would like my cat's ashes buried with me in the coffin, they said that no that wouldn't be possible - they'd need to go to a separate Pet Cemetery.

I not asking for a mini-plot just for them - that I could understand. Just perplexed by the reason for not allowing cremated pet remains (in a container) to be put in the coffin?
No, problem with human cremated remains, anything else no!?

Thoughts/comments.

If the underatker did it discretly the burial ground staff would never know.

AylesburyDuck

Heres a solution, you can get jewelry to place ashes in (not all of it), you get buried in the jewelry and scatter the rest of remains in your cats favourite place.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_9?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ashes+jewellery&sprefix=ashes+jew%2Caps%2C136&crid=2JC0JANY5UXL3

unforeseen

A separate licence issued by the Environment Agency is required to scatter or bury pet ashes in a human cemetery or crematorium. They obviously don't have one.

A bit more background http://www.dignitypetcrem.co.uk/pet-caskets-and-urns/pet-and-human-ashes-scattering-at-dignity-pet-crematorium/

no1catman

Interesting - they explained why Pet's ashes can't be put in a coffin prior to cremation - fine I can understand that.
But no explanation why - in the case of burial!

leespot

Without sounding extremely morbid, it is perfectly possible to for someone to discreetly put the pet ashes in your coffin prior to your cremation.

Geoff1963

My understanding of "ashes" is that they are not all of the ashes which are created by the process, but a sample to act as a memento. Some services use only a very small sample, of that sample :
https://www.celestis.com/resources/how-it-works/

Each time you breathe in, today or tomorrow, until your last breath, you are inhaling a few molecules of the air your cat once breathed ; and your lungs almost certainly have a few fibres of its hair. That means your own body, already contains a memento of your cat ; whatever the burial rules say.

no1catman

leespot wrote: »

Without sounding extremely morbid, it is perfectly possible to for someone to discreetly put the pet ashes in your coffin prior to your cremation.

See previous post 'your cremation' haven't said that, have said 'burial'.

leespot

Same applies, it can be done discreetly no matter how your remains are being disposed of.

m1kjm

If you choose a natural burial ground you'll be able to have your cat's ashes interred with you.

silvercar

Has your cat already passed away? Or do you have some knowledge suggesting it's demise before yours?