Isn't it a heath concern to sprinke a person's ashes somewhere, couldn't you potentially breathe those ashes?

Answer 1

just hold your breath, there is so much dust in the air anyway by the time they separate it won't matter. They will just eventually disintegrate.

Answer 2

Potentially, anything can happen. Practically, it doesn't. Not that much of the "ash" is really ash, and that much is usually incorporated in soil when washed with water.

PS: I sprinked ashes of my stepmom about a year ago. So I'm not giving you a line, and I wasn't snorting coke.

Answer 3

The ashes are dust which has been superheated in the crematorium so they're competely sterile. Every last germ and bacteria will have been well and truly killed off.

Any health concern would be the same as breating any dust - primarily respiratory conditions such as asthma but you'd have to go snorting the ashes for it to be a problem

Answer 4

I'm sure it's no more of a health concern than the billions of cars on the road each day or the other toxic chemicals we use in our every day lives.
If you're really curious, ask Keith Richards. He snorted his father's ashes with cocaine.

Answer 5

Carbon is the essential building block of life (despite what Al Gore claims), organic, and inate, harms nothing, in fact it is used in most filtration systems, they are no more hazardous once converted to carbon, than wood ashes.

Answer 6

Yes, you could and you probably would. However, there's no real major health effects to breathing in a little bit of debris, we do it everyday, especially if you live in LA.