Cremation seems to me to always be the best alternative to burial. Our village church is just down the road from my house, and the churchyard is filled with graves that no-one has been near for years -- family moved away etc. I guess. Better to take happy memories of good times with a loved one wherever one might travel and settle.
My mother always insisted on that, and when she died we had her remains cremated. We then took the urn to the Isle of Wight crematorium where my father's ashes were scattered long ago, and the crematorium had a record of where that was, so Mother's ashes could be scattered there too. They also had a record book with an illuminated page for everyone that had been cremated there, and they found my father's page. The facing page was blank, because they would then enter my mother's name in that. "Then, when the book is closed, they will be together again." The crematorium director said.
Much better than a forlorn grave stone in a lonely cemetery.[/QUOTEI see your point about ashes,yes they can be with you all the time.
