Ceremony

Your celebration, your ceremony. The great thing is that it is entirely up to you, a special occasion to commemorate the life of a loved one. With a little thought and preparation your ceremony to

scatter their ashes, will be meaningful, memorable, heartfelt and dignified. It is a fantastic opportunity to give them send-off they would have wished for.

If your loved one was religious you can ask the faith leader to preside. However, if the person wasn’t religious then it is entirely up to you, which has its own advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side you can spread the ashes in a way you see fit, however with no tradition to lean upon you may be left wondering what the ceremony should involve.

 

Words to say when scattering ashes

Words to say when scattering ashes

Need to find the right words to say when scattering ashes? It may be easier to start of any scattering  ceremony with a phrase or quote:

We have split the quotations into a few categories

Life Affirming

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.  For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.  ~Albert Einstein

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.  A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.  ~Mark Twain

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.  We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.  ~David Sarnoff

I’m not afraid of death.  It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.  ~ Jean Giraudoux.

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.  ~Francis Bacon

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.  ~Henry Van Dyke

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.  ~Leonardo Da Vinci

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. ~Amelia Burr

Secular

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.  ~Madame de Stael

Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! … Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.  ~Mark Twain

Classical

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.  ~Seneca

Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away. ~Horace

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.  ~Socrates

Eastern

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ~ Confucius

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. ~ Buddha

Light hearted

There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn’t get worse every year.  ~Author Unknown