I've made a decision. Strange to some but it feels right to me.

[WillParkinson]

When my beloved Misty left us we had her cremated. Then Heidi also went and she, too, was cremated.

I've decided that what I want to do is have all my extended family cremated and when I die have their ashes and mine mixed. They were with me in life and it just seems right that I be with them after death.

[livetohike]

1. Not a strange concept to me

I have the ashes of my dogs, too. I've been thinking about my final arrangements and want the same thing.

[badgerpup]

2. Not strange.

:hug:

When my cats go to the Bridge, what they leave behind is cremated. I want to plant a white-flowering bush and work their ashes around the roots. Each cat will have a small, smooth, flattish river stone (about palm size) with their name engraved upon it placed about the bush.

Just not sure what kind of bush. I'd like to get something purely ornamental.

[TorchTheWitch]

10. have you considered a Winter Honeysuckle?

It's a bush variety of honeysuckle that blooms little white very fragrant flowers in the winter. Their scent is a bit different than regular honeysuckle - sort of a citrus type smell. One of my neighbor's has one, and it's green all year long and does the blossoms straight through Christmas-time and sometimes longer even though we're a bit northern here. The scent is just delicious. It's a rather uncommon non-invasive variety of honeysuckle, and it's always so surprising to see it green and blooming fragrant flowers when everything else but the evergreens are brown, leafless and dead looking. Having your bush be something like this that's green and blooming flowers when everything else looks shriveled and dead seems like it would be a nice choice for what you have in mind in particular. That would be cool... kind of mystical.

They look like this...
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/183468/

[hamsterjill]

3. Not strange at all.

I think it's a lovely gesture.

[iscooterliberally]

4. Not strange to me either.

I have my Cisco in a box waiting to be mingled with my ashes someday. :fistbump:

[FloriTexan]

5. We lost our best dog in March...

Hubby decided then this is what we would do as well.

[Paper Roses]

6. Not strange at all. I held on to the ashes of our special kitty

for years. My husband died unexpectedly and was cremated.
I added my kitties ashes to his before he was buried. I know he would have approved.
Our pets are a part of us. No need to question your thoughts.

[mopinko]

7. a funeral home near me now does pets because so many

people requested this sort of thing, or called them when a pet died.
most of my pets are either buried in my yard, or their ashes are. i have left instructions that i join them.

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I think it is a great idea. Since it is supposed to be illegal

in my state to bury pets with humans, this is a way to get around it.

I also had this exact same idea, but with 4 kitties already buried, I kinda screwed up the timing of my grand idea.

[virgdem]

9. Not strange at all...

5 of my kitties were cremated and they sit on my fireplace mantle. My idea for the longest time has been to mix their ashes with mine when I depart for the great beyond (wherever that may be). They are a part of me - my cherished kitty kids and I want them with me for all eternity.

[TorchTheWitch]

11. Now I'm thinking of doing this myself

I really like this idea.

[Warpy]

12. Not strange to me, at all.

When I finally go sprinkle my parents, they'll be mixed. If their little dog had been returned to them as ashes, he'd be in there, too.

[GoCubsGo]

13. That is what I'm doing...

All my kitties, and I, and any dogs I might ever have, are going to put into a concrete block, as ashes, that will become part of an artificial reef.