Last Friday I received a letter from P&O saying that I could scatter Mum's ashes at sea and for a while I was overjoyed and then I read the letter again. The letter said I needed the cremation certificate to be able to take the ashes. Suddenly I felt that everything was going wrong; this couldn't be happening. I contacted the funeral director immediately to see if he had the certificate but unfortunately he told me that Mum's vicar had it.
My problems just got a whole lot worse. My Mum's vicar believes that he buried all of Mum's ashes and not just some. He refused to bury some as he said her spirit would not be whole. What utter nonsense they are ashes and are symbolic. So my brother and I decided to get them seperated with the help of the funeral director. After speaking with Simon (funeral director) again he said there was a slim chance that the crematorium may give a duplicate certificate but we would have to give a bit of a sob story. If that was our only way go for it.
All day I have been preparing myself that I may not be able to scatter her ashes at sea and was thinking about where I could scatter them here. I checked my email inbox tonight and I had an email from Simon saying that he has got me a duplicate copy of the cremation certficate I am so happy I can now take her ashes with me.
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