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Turn your loved one's ashes into art, thanks to creative containers for cremains

Written by DeadGirl

Saturday, 10 February 2007

By Jack Broom, Seattle Times staff reporter

Would you spend eternity in a cigar? Would you keep a loved one in a motorcycle gas tank? Display her in a graceful glass statue, place her in Puget Sound in a paper pillow or mix her into the paint on her very own portrait?

Call it thinking outside the urn. As cremation grows in popularity, the somber dark urns of the past are giving way to an increasing variety of artistic creations of glass, metal, wood and ceramic.

There's no need to wait for heaven's call. Many are being marketed to a younger audience as objects to enjoy in this life before reposing in them in the next. And Washington, where nearly two-thirds of those who die are cremated, is fertile ground for this ever-expanding array.

For a quick look at some of the more imaginative cremation options available, check out the photos.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003563120_cremains090.html

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

Taphophilia Facts

Texas is home to one Presidential gravesite, Lyndon B. Johnson.

Taphophiles Speak

Have you decided on eternal repose?

	earthen burial
	entombment
	cremation
	donation to science
	cyrogenically frozen
	you mean I'm still alive?

Quote Repository

“Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.”

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Grave Epigrams

Here lie interred the dreadfully bruised and lacerated bodies of William Bradbury and Thomas, his son, both of Greenfield, who were together savagely murdered in an unusually horrid manner on Monday Night April 2, 1832:

Such and interest did their tragic end excite
That, ere they were removed from human sight,
Thousands on thousands daily came to see
The bloody scene of the catastrophe...

Saddleworth Church Graveyard
Yorkshire, England 1832