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Grief and loss come with uncharted territory, which includes many mundane details like event planning and cleaning. When a departed loved one is cremated, you can host a scattering ceremony to lay them to rest. If you’re wondering how to scatter ashes at the beach to honor your lost loved one, Ecorial’s put together a guide to help you get started.

Best Poems for Scattering Ashes

Many people turn to poetry in times of distress and grief. There is a profound realness to poetry that can comfort and soothe, whether it’s by reflecting the rawness within or reminding us of beauty and hope. Poetry isn’t music or prayer, but it’s closely related to both. Like many people in the throes of grief, you may be turning to poetry to help you walk through the deep grief of losing a beloved person in your life. Poetry is also an appropriate and helpful way to speak over spreading the ashes of a loved one, especially if the one who passed wasn’t religious. Poetry can speak the language of grief, and of hope, which is why we’ll be going over poems for spreading ashes while you lay your loved one to rest in nature.

What Prayer to Say While Spreading Ashes

The ritual of spreading the cremation ashes of a beloved person who has passed is a time-honored way to say goodbye and lay them to rest in nature. Spreading a loved one’s ashes can be a powerful moment of grief and healing, as the physical act represents the finality of this goodbye. Many people wish to say a prayer for themselves and the one who passed while spreading ashes. This is a way to honor the person who passed and express your deep grief. Or, perhaps the departed person was a person of faith, and they would have wanted a prayer over their ash spreading. Prayer is powerful and unites many people, just as grieving one who passed does. If you’re looking for a prayer or are perhaps wondering how on earth to choose the right one, please keep reading. We’ll suggest prayers for your ash spreading and discuss how to make this important choice.

Best Music for the Cremation Service and Ash Scattering

When a loved one passes, the remaining family and friends are faced with many decisions, like what music to play at the cremation service and how to best memorialize your departed loved one. We know that grief can make things that would have been simple before your loss, well, complicated. It can be hard to know what the right decision is when it comes to meaningful decisions like the music played to honor the one who passed. Thankfully, this decision may be easier than you thought. We’ll discuss how to choose music for a cremation service or an ash scattering, and we’ve made a list of popular songs you can choose from for both of these ceremonies.

Can You Scatter Ashes in a National Park?

Scattering your loved one’s ashes in a stunning national park is a beautiful and meaningful way to say goodbye and lay them to rest. Maybe your loved one had a favorite national park, or perhaps you’re simply looking for a lovely one close by. Most national parks allow ash scattering with a permit, but that is at the discretion of the park director. Look up the national park you’re considering on the National Parks Service website for their scattering rules or contact info. Please keep reading for more information on ash scattering at popular national parks, and some ash scattering ceremony tips, including how to record your loved one’s resting place on Ecorial.

Best Flowers for the Cremation Service and Ash Scattering

If you’ve recently lost someone you care about, you likely want to help their family and loved ones as much as possible. This may be a way to help soothe your grief, and the departed loved ones may need the support. (They may also simply need your presence; remember the saying about grief, “Don’t just do something, stand there.”.) A classic way to send love and care to the bereaved is to send or bring flowers. Bringing flowers to a cremation service or an ash scattering ceremony is a lovely way to show honor for the one who passed and offer comfort to those they’ve left behind. Please keep reading for more about choosing flowers to bring to a cremation service or ash scattering.

How to Open an Urn to Scatter Ashes

If you’ve recently lost someone you love, you are likely bedeviled with many pesky, sad, and mundane tasks necessary to lay your loved one to rest. One of these tasks is handling the cremation remains after they’ve been returned to you. In addition to deciding what to do with the ashes, there is the practical matter of opening the urn. If this is where you’re at or somewhere you’ll be soon, you may wonder, “How do I open an urn?”. Please keep reading as we talk about how to open an urn to scatter ashes, make cremation glass, or fill keepsake urns.

What to Wear at an Ash Scattering Ceremony

What you wear to any ceremony meant to honor and memorialize a person who has passed has significance in most cultures and religions. While these practices vary widely, they unite us in a common goal of mourning and paying respect to the one who passed and their loved ones. So, if you are wondering what to wear to an ash scattering ceremony, you are joining billions of people in a ritual of loss performed for many generations. Please keep reading if you have any questions about what to wear to scatter ashes. We’ll discuss what to wear, what not to wear, and what to bring to an ash scattering ceremony.

Ceremony Ideas

Your loved one was a special individual, and you likely wish to honor their uniqueness in their ash scattering ceremony. There are many ways to have a scattering ceremony, in addition to the traditional casting ceremony. One way to make your loved one’s scattering ceremony special is to mark its location in an online memorial. This article will cover more of these special ash scattering ceremony ideas. Hopefully, you find one you like or are inspired by them to create your own ceremony.

How to Plan a Spreading of Ashes Ceremony: Step-by-Step Guide

Holding a scattering ceremony is a loving way to honor and remember your loved one who’s passed. Scattering ceremonies are both quite similar to any hosted event and also hugely different. What other event calls for checking with local governments about permits, setting up online memorials, and has “stir the ashes” on the to-do list? If you’re the one planning, here is a helpful guide on how to plan a spreading of ashes ceremony that can hopefully make everything a little bit easier.

Ash Scattering Ceremony Invitation: What to Say, Whom to Invite

If you’ve recently lost someone important to you, you may be planning an ash scattering ceremony. Many people in your loved one’s life likely want to come together and memorialize their passing. An ash scattering ceremony is a loving way to honor a departed loved one. One of the most vital elements of an ash scattering ceremony is the invitation. But, like many of the details associated with a profound loss, from talking to a crematorium to setting up online memorials, you may be unfamiliar with how to send out an invitation to a scattering ceremony. This is to be expected because where you’re at now is likely unfamiliar territory. Rest assured, we’re here to help with some tips, advice, and templates to make sending out ash scattering ceremony invitations as simple as possible.

A Simplified Legal Guide To Spreading Ashes

An important question before you lay your loved one’s ashes to rest is, “Is it legal to spread ashes?”. While there aren’t “scattering police” looking to catch you in the act, there are some places where scattering is prohibited and could result in fines or minor criminal charges if you did happen to get noticed. And, if you’re in the middle of grieving, the last thing you need is to have the authorities involved. So, we’ve prepared this guide to help you determine where it’s legal to spread ashes.

How To Find A Memorial In Nature Using Ecorial

If you’ve recently lost someone close to you, a loved one likely created an Ecorial Rest in Nature memorial in their honor. Ecorial is a new, innovative website and app that helps you create nature memorials for those who have passed on. One of its notable features is that it allows everyone who loved and admired the person who passed to interact with their memorial. To share your memories, find your loved one’s memorial. In this article, you’ll learn how to use the Ecorial memorial finder.

What to Say When Scattering Your Loved One’s Ashes

There are no rules regarding what to say when scattering someone’s ashes. What matters is that the moment feels meaningful to you and honoring to your loved one who passed. Many people want to say something while scattering their loved one’s ashes. With some preparation and a little research, you’re sure to figure out what to say when scattering ashes. To help you, we’ll discuss tips for choosing the right words for scattering and some examples of prayers, poems, and quotes that could be useful.

Why Grieve in Nature and How Nature Heals Us After Loss

If you’ve suffered a loss, you know the profound power of grief to immobilize us and ravage our hearts and minds. While grief is most intense in the moments soon after a loss, it can still be felt deeply years after a beloved person passes. Wherever you are on your journey through grief and loss, you can find comfort, solace, and healing in nature. In this article, we’re going to discuss grief and nature, how nature heals, and its relationship to mental health. Our hope here at Ecorial is that this guide can offer some ease and comfort in this difficult time.

How To Create An Online Memorial on Ecorial

If you’re looking for a meaningful and interactive way to memorialize someone you’ve lost, whether recently or years ago, create an online memorial with Ecorial. Creating memorials for those we love and have lost is an inherent part of human nature. We have always marked the graves of those who have passed. So, it makes sense that in our modern, online world, we would be drawn to memorialize our loved ones in our online spaces. Using the internet to connect all of our memorials online is a beautiful reflection of how we are all truly connected. Ecorial is a cutting-edge online memorial service that brings a loved one’s physical resting place online where it can be shared with family and friends.