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<blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 59850" data-attributes="member: 1710">Bastard indeed. I hope everyone's remains get sorted out. I suppose it's very zen to say that, &quot;We are not our bodies&quot;, but seeing your relatives' remains abused and neglected in such a horrendous manner must be a shocking and tragic ordeal.Sort of on the same subject, within the past three years our family lost two dogs that had been with us for many years, both to different types of cancer. This lead to us finding out that, not only is cremation priced &quot;by the pound&quot;, but that some cremation services (for pets, perhaps not humans), cremate many corpses at the same time, and simply dole out the proper ratio of ashes to each family.Thankfully our vet has her own crematorium on the premises and always cremates the animals seperately and picks out an appropriate tin to put them in. Interestingly enough, the ashen remains of our 114 pound yellow labrador, Hannah, still weigh more than any of our, still living, cats.Cremation is the way my mother wants to go, so to speak. She has no interest in rotting away in the ground. With all of these stories on the news about corruption in the funeral industry, perhaps we should take her to the vet if we want it handled correctly and with dignity. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Thankfully, though, that will be a long ways off.Edited for missing words!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bran Blackbyrd, post: 59850, member: 1710"] Bastard indeed. I hope everyone's remains get sorted out. I suppose it's very zen to say that, "We are not our bodies", but seeing your relatives' remains abused and neglected in such a horrendous manner must be a shocking and tragic ordeal. Sort of on the same subject, within the past three years our family lost two dogs that had been with us for many years, both to different types of cancer. This lead to us finding out that, not only is cremation priced "by the pound", but that some cremation services (for pets, perhaps not humans), cremate many corpses at the same time, and simply dole out the proper ratio of ashes to each family. Thankfully our vet has her own crematorium on the premises and always cremates the animals seperately and picks out an appropriate tin to put them in. Interestingly enough, the ashen remains of our 114 pound yellow labrador, Hannah, still weigh more than any of our, still living, cats. Cremation is the way my mother wants to go, so to speak. She has no interest in rotting away in the ground. With all of these stories on the news about corruption in the funeral industry, perhaps we should take her to the vet if we want it handled correctly and with dignity. :( Thankfully, though, that will be a long ways off. Edited for missing words! [/QUOTE]

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