Scattering Gardens - Cremated Remains

All this funeral talk is buzzing in my head as we are helping a relative preplan their arrangements.

Disposal of the cremains seems to be an issue for people in my family. My father didn't want me to bother picking them up, my mother says I can flush them for all she cares and the most current relative isn't sure. She just wants to be put in the same container with her husband. Problem is there is no room in that container and I really don't want them sitting in my living room. Scattering seems like an option.

Here's the thing. There is a lot to scatter. If you haven't dealt with this, take my word for it that this is not just something that will be lightly carried along with the breeze. Also, most places do not allow scattering. Of course no one's to know if you do it surreptiously - I had a friend who snuck her mother onto the beach in Florida, but it would be nice to do it openly instead of in the dead of night.

So cemetery's now have scattering gardens. Its a nice area of the cemetery set aside for this purpose. Here's what I don't get, what happens after the scattering? It wouldn't take long for there to be obvious signs of the dearly departed. It would actually get crunchy to be honest. So they must do something - maybe that's why you have to pay so they can do whatever they do to "make room" for the next scattering. I'm gonna have to look that up.

Luckily I have 10 acres up in Bancroft. Its no worse then the old beer bottles and tires I find up there!