This sums it all up! Exactly. All credit to the Mirror News Paper and Gary Bainbridge
What should you do
with your dead mum's ashes?
How un-dignified
I took the casket in my hands and at that
moment realised that I had made one of my poorer decisions.
It has been raining quite a lot recently. You
might have noticed. And although there was gravel around the plot, it was wet
and muddy. I knelt down next to the grave and could feel the water soaking into
my trousers.
I leant forward. Now, the thing about wooden
caskets is that they are quite thick. You cannot hold them in one hand, you
have to use both. Also, it is considered fairly disrespectful just to drop them
in the grave. Combine these realities with the fact that the hole dug was about
three feet deep.
You should now have a picture of a 6ft tall
man kneeling and holding something heavy in two hands, which he has to place
gently in a 3ft deep hole. If you can think of a dignified way this can be
done, please write to me.
I bent, knowing that I faced my doom, and
somehow twisted so that my head rested against the headstone, and, with a face
full of flowers, I stretched my arms long enough so that I could gently place
the casket in the ground. Then I struggled to my feet.
My trousers and boots were caked in dirt from
the gravel, and I had mud up one sleeve. I had sacrificed my own dignity for my
mother's, and walked home afterwards looking as if I had done an army assault
course in my suit and tie.
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