Just been watching Grayson Perry’s ‘Rites of passage’. His focus is on rituals to deal with death in different parts of the world. It is fascinating to see the amount of time that people keep a dead body in their house, some for over a year in certain countries.
With definite rituals and ways of coming to terms with the death of a family member.
He visits a man with motor neuron disease, he was told he only had 18 months to live, but has now been alive for 8 years, he relies on a breathing machine to survive. Grayson Perry talks to him about how they can give him a good send off a good death the death with some sort form of ritual and he will make something and a work of art to be used in this ceremony
Visits house someone in Sunderland where young boy has died at the age of 14 and Grayson Perry is looking at we his parents are coping with his death they have text his room as a memorial and the chimney breast in the living room has become a shrine.

Is this made me think about my dad’s Ashes are still in the funeral parlour
My sister was talking about spreading the Ashes the other day we had talked about this a while ago and decided that we would divide his ashes into three parts so we can all put his Ashes somewhere that we feel means something to us personally
This has brought up ideas about ceremonies or making a shrine possibly filming the scattering of his ashes you can do better to put the Ashes in opened up a lot different avenues to pursue.