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My gf's mom keeps her dead parents in the house, sitting on the fireplace mantle. Is it normal to keep your dead relatives in your home and talk to them sometimes? Is it expensive to store the urns at a cemetery?
This is not normal everybody knows you keep dead bodies in the crawlspace or 55 gallon drums in the garage damn weirdos
My brother died in 2000 and his ashes are still on a shelf at my niece's home (his daughter) because his sons from the first marriage can't agree on what to do with them.
They won't even agree to divide them up so she can do what she wants with some of them.
I'm leaving clear instructions on where I want my ashes to go: off the bridge near home I cross most days into the river I love so much, which eventually flows into the sea.
I honestly think it's normal and not creepy, death doesn't bother me. I ain't afraid of no ghosts.
I believe a lot of people do this. After some period of mourning others may then take the ashes out for scattering, but many just keep them on the mantle.
I said "not normal" because I don't believe most people do this. But some people do it with loved ones and pets. Honestly, I get a bit creeped out by being around a container of burned up body parts, but I guess it's not my place to judge if it's their home.
Some friends of mine went to an old friend of theirs' funeral and there was sadly no family there so they ended up with the ashes.. On the journey home they were wondering where she'd have liked to be scattered, and decided she was never an outdoor girl, preferring to party 24/7, so she still lives on their shelf, with sunglasses and stick-on plastic lips on the urn.
Having ashes on the mantle is entirely normal. I talk to inanimate objects and my cats all the time. I also have a spirit (or spirits, not sure how many i invoked) that are trying to drive me crazy slowly.(If I sleep somewhere else in the house it/they will be able to leave my room and go anywhere it/they want/s and I can't expose my family to that insanity) so my advice may be sound or not. My mind has been a scary place for the last few months because of that.... issue. So id listen to someone else if i were you but I hope I helped. I say my advice has about half as much chance of being sound than most others. Don't count mine over everyone elses.
There's this guy in china. In his freezers, he has kept his dead son's body and the body of someone else he was related to. This is either his daughter or his wife.
His story was touching and sad but, I can't get over how creepy it is. I don't think it is normal. Cremation is more "normal" where I live. We have the ashes of my first cat on our mantle. My grandmother has her husband's ashes somewhere. His ashes were originally given to us but, I couldn't stand having them in our house so, I demanded that they be taken out of our house.
My parents have the ashes of a dearly beloved poochie in the curio cabinet. I have the buried bodies af several small animals...
Actually it is normal. My mom's brother recently passed and she put his ashes in the back room. The box has its own private space. If the containers are out where everyone can see and this bothers you, maybe pretend they don't have human ashes in them and see if that helps?