Weird Query

[1750Shooter]

This is s bit weird, but I thought since this is an international forum someone could help me. My Mother recently died & we have scattered her ashes on both coasts since she loved the ocean (I live on OR & the rest of the family is in the East), but she always wanted to travel to France (she was a French language & literature major in college) & our family has Scottish roots, too. I was windering if anyone in either France and/or Scotland would be willing to scatter some of her ashes there so I could feel she finally made it there. Thanks for any help. She was a really great parent who managed to transition to adult friend.

 

[Leigh Youdale]

You might need to consider how the customs and drug enforcement people are going to view a small package of whitish/grey powder. Maybe check out how you can send it before enlisting anyone to help - you wouldn't want them to face gaol/jail through trying to help!

 

[sevo]

You might need to consider how the customs and drug enforcement people are going to view a small package of whitish/grey powder. Maybe check out how you can send it before enlisting anyone to help - you wouldn't want them to face gaol/jail through trying to help!

Even if the packet gets past that hurdle, it might only be so by being properly registered with its contents, which would put a firm stop to any uncontrolled private scattering - in much of Europe, there is no legal difference between handling ashes or a severed head, and any legal scattering of ashes requires hard to get and expensive permits for a out-of-graveyard burial.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Sure. A choice of on land in our local village or (after a long wait) the Mediterranean (we should be there in July). Or (as Frances suggested) in a river. Either a local one or the Loire: we'll be in Chinon in April.

Ain't likely to be in Scotland for a while unless I go to Focus on Imaging in the UK and then go to see my father on Clydeside (in February/March).

EDIT: Following Sevo's post (which I have to admit had never occurred to me) I've checked and it's no to a river in France, but land and sea are OK as long as there's no urn. A paper packet/envelope sounds like a better idea. It's only a small symbolic amount after all.

Condolences,

R.

 

[kbg32]

http://www.cremationsolutions.com/Scattering-Ashes-Laws-Regulations-c108.html