This is a bit morbid but practical nonetheless. Some people bury their cats at a pet cemetery. There is a pet cemetery not that far from where I live. There is at least one in New York, USA. There are probably many more. Well, you may have heard that New York’s Division of Cemeteries has instituted new regulations allowing people to have their cremated remains buried with their pet. It was banned until recently but I fail to understand why.
I don’t know how popular this will be. The first question is how many people have their cat or dog buried at a pet cemetery? I would have thought most people have their cat cremated. Some people, like me, then take the ashes home.
In my case I want my body to be cremated and the ashes mixed with the ashes of my cats, which are in an urn in the living room. But then what happens to the combined ashes? That, I am not sure about at present.
I’ll probably have them scattered over a place or buried in a place that I love. I just want my ashes to be with the ashes of my cats for all eternity.
I am actually surprised that there was a ban on the ashes of a person being buried at the grave of their pet. I can’t see anything wrong with it but I can see a lot that is right about it.
I don’t know what the rules are across the USA or UK on this matter. I just know I want to be with the remains of my cats when I die. That is that for me.
This is an entirely emotional decision. There is no DNA in ashes so there is no direct connection between the person or the cat and the ashes in an urn. Ash is ash wherever it came from. Actually that appears to be inaccurate. There may be slight differences in ash composition depending where it came from. For a person it is made up of calcium phosphates with some minerals.
We think alike Dee!
Here graves are protected for 100 years and the thought of someone in the future digging up that land and disturbing peoples resting places is not very nice.
100 years later no one will have known or remember those people buried anyway.
I’d rather go into oblivion too than go to any place without our much loved cats being there along with our much loved human family.
Totally agree with you, Marc.
I could never buy the theory that each birth is a NEW soul.
It is my preference to be cremated because I don’t think that I have the right to take up as much space as is needed for a burial.
I envision bodies in cemeteries being exhumed and cremated some time in the future.
Blending my remains with the remains of my much loved “babies” is irrelevant to me. Whatever happens when we leave these shells behind is only important to me because I want to be and travel with my “babies” or not journey at all.
Michael – yes you did. And I suppose I will have to just take some of the soil from Red’s grave one day. I might even take some of the grasses and weeds and replant them in a pot – but I’d be sad if they didn’t survive. I suppose I could go get more. Only if I really move far away will this become a serious issue.
I don’t like burials for that very reason, that anyone can disturb their place of rest, even years after the burial.
I felt like digging up the bones of the cats we had to leave behind in the garden but they had been buried deep and for a long time and were resting in peace.
I understand how you need to keep yours in an urn and to touch the urn and to say a few words, a lot of people do the same, but to me it’s as if they are imprisoned, held there not of their own choosing.
My own thoughts are always that each and every one of us living beings are free spirits, we belong to no one, we have the right to be scattered freely to the earth. I can’t stand the thought of not being free, when my day comes I want my ashes to float off gently in the breeze and to land where they choose.
Well, Rudolph, you are right. After death we are nothing except a memory for someone somewhere.
I feel quite mortal these days. Death is not so far away that I can’t see it and feel it.
My desire to be with my cat’s ashes after death is purely emotional. It just provides some comfort now while I am alive!