Ashes

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Life

UK Garden Begs People to Stop Throwing Human Remains After Someone Got a Mouthful of Ashes

02.10.25

By Meredith Kile
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Life

Mom Busts Toddlers Eating, Playing in Their Grandfather’s Ashes

“The boys got PawPaw.”

01.20.25

By Meredith Kile
Food

Student Allegedly Baked Dead Grandpa’s Ashes in Cookies and Handed Them Out at School

10.17.18

By Jelisa Castrodale
Sex

This Artist Creates Specialty Dildos That Can Hold Human Remains

09.04.18

By Sarah Bellman
Drugs

Cops Seized a Bag of Human Remains Because They Thought It Was Heroin

04.27.18

By River Donaghey
Tech

Grow a Tree from Human Remains With This Internet Connected Urn

06.04.17

By Anna Sterling
All the Strange Things People Have Done With Their Relatives’ Cremated Remains

03.18.17

By Jesse Donaldson
25 Major Artists Save an Art School Using Its Charred Remains

02.26.17

By Maya-Roisin Slater
Entertainment

I Chilled with an Artist Who Burns Old Works to Make New Ones

11.17.16

By Masha (Maria) Koblyakova
We Asked an Undertaker Why He Keeps Strangers’ Unclaimed Ashes for Decades

10.29.16

By Jesse Donaldson
Identity

The Vatican Says Catholics Shouldn’t Spread Their Dead Relatives’ Ashes Around Anymore

10.25.16

By Allison Schaller
Entertainment

You Might Be Able to Buy Truman Capote’s Ashes for Just $6,000

08.24.16

By VICE Staff