After my mom was cremated, we sprinkled her ashes on her mother's grave (per her request). She always liked to party, so someone had the great idea to pour a beer over the ashes after we were done sprinkling her. Has anyone done anything like this, or is my family that weird?
2006-08-20 16:00:05 · 22 answers · asked by some chick 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I personally never poured beer on anyone's ashes but I have decided that I want to be creamated and ashes spread over the graves of my mother, father and grandmother.
It's doesn't matter what anyone else thinks...you do what you need to to give you peace!
2006-08-28 06:55:43 · answer #1 · answered by Natural_Woman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People have been doing this for years.Be it over ashes,a plain grave,in the street...wherever.
Once a year my friends and I go to the grave site of one of our friends who died when we were 15.We drink and" poor a little out for those who ain't' here"(that's a quote used in some African-American cultures)!
In other words your NORMAL!I'm so sorry to tell you this,I know it's a shock but you will be OK!
2006-08-28 15:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by bubblin'21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it's done much more often than many of us think.
On the Day of the Dead, Mexican families take food and drink to the graves of their departed ones, have a picnic by the graves, and leave food offerings.
I think the Mexican culture is not the only one to do something like this.
2006-08-28 13:48:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not weird at all.When my adoptive father passed away, he had promised my sister that he would drink a few beers with her on her 21st birthday.Unfortunately, he passed away 3 months before her 21st birthday.So in the middle of February, we went up to his grave, shoveled the snow off it, put down a few blankets and proceeded to have a couple of beers with Dad,in 40 degree weather.
2006-08-20 16:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I left a can of beer for my dad at his grave. He liked beer. I also came across a cowboy's grave from the late 1800's while I was working one day and left a cigarette for him. I think I even went back and left him another one.
2006-08-28 01:33:35 · answer #5 · answered by indian_ernie42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just recently, there was a little ceremony to honor our dearly departed friends and families in the form of burning a miniature ship. As some friends and I were watching, we did do our toast to absent friends, and some of us did pour part of our drinks on the ground.
I woudln't say it's weird. It's just not the most common way to say farewell.
2006-08-20 16:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know someone who made a necklace from the remains after cremation.
2006-08-27 08:40:36 · answer #7 · answered by thewordofgodisjesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone once told me a can of beer was put in a casket before cremation, and everyone heard it pop!!!! In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here.......
2006-08-28 14:56:10 · answer #8 · answered by mld m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When my friends and I go out , we will buy an extra beer & keep it on the table as a reminder & as a offering to our friends that have passed on. PS, we never drink it either.
2006-08-27 06:58:23 · answer #9 · answered by wldorjonn5o 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmmm, there is not any longer something to income from that. No cool outcomes, in basic terms a psychological extreme, consistent with danger... Keith Richards claimed to have completed it along with his father's ashes and cocaine... so which you're no longer trendsetting. there is not any learn or document of it being utilized in any rituals... so, my consensus is, whoever does it is cracked out of their cranium at first, or... they % interest for being "darkish" or "different". it is going to reason inflammation... this isn't any longer water soluable, like Cocaine, so it is going to bypass on the instant on your lungs, in case you do no longer sneeze it out.
2016-10-02 08:27:09 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋