Should You Have Your Cremated Remains Made into Jewelry When You Die?

 I thought it worthwhile to share the sentiments which I wrote for my daughter on this subject.

Mom's Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Have Your Cremains Put Into Jewelry

1. Your kids might think it is morbid and gross to wear your ashes.

2. Jewelry gets lost. Bye bye, Mom's remains!

3. Jewelry goes out of style, and the recipient may want to stop wearing it.

4. Jewelry gets broken and thrown into a drawer, or into the garbage. Bye bye, Mom!

5. The jewelry bearing your cremains will probably be tossed aside at some point for something which has new sentimental meaning, like a wedding or engagement ring, or a gift from someone living. Or another person who has died and had their cremains put into jewelry!

6. You may die before your grandchildren are born. They may not want to wear you if they never knew you. Same with your great grandchildren and whoever after that would inherit the jewelry.

7. You may die before Dad and I die. We want a grave to visit. Dad will not wear jewelry other than his wedding ring. I will not wear you, either.

8. Your loved ones can be buried next to you if you are buried in a grave or your ashes are inured in a columbarium.

9. If you have a grave stone, long after you are dead and those who knew you are dead, others can look at your grave and pray for you.

10. You have been baptized. You are a temple of the Holy Spirit, and your body deserves to be buried in consecrated ground.