Really? So you can’t keep the remains/an urn of their ashes? Does that also apply to things like when they make gemstones from ashes?
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Dojan@pawb.social 13 hours agoHere in Sweden you can’t keep human ashes. It’s illegal.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Dojan@pawb.social 12 hours ago
According to Skatteverket, a deceased must be cremated or buried within a month of death. If they get cremated, then the ashes need to be buried within a year. There can be exceptions, the page says
- Should the relatives be in disagreement about funerary arrangements
- In case a relative is unable to organise it, e.g. due to sickness
- In case a survivor is to be buried alongside
- In case the departed has donated their body, e.g. for science
No idea if you can turn loved ones into gemstones here, I’d assume not. I’d also assume that if you’re waiting with burying the cremated remains of someone because they’re to be laid to rest alongside a loved one, you’re also not allowed to keep said remains at home.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
That makes sense, it’s just blowing my American mind, where an urn on the mantle is extremely commonplace. My brother and I both an urn with our mother’s remains, for instance.
Dojan@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Right? I’ve a friend in England who has a little urn with some of their mother’s ashes. I’m personally planning on keeping my dog’s ashes when he passes. However, apparently keeping a human is a no-no.
Sweden has this rep of being very liberal and free, but there’s a lot going on here that’s baffling. We’ve got some of the highest drug related deaths in Europe, and every single party in parliament is for the heavy criminalisation of drug use. It’s like the one thing they’re all agreeing on. We even did some stop-and-frisk for a while!
lime@feddit.nu 13 hours ago
why? now you don’t have them anymore!
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Dojan@pawb.social 13 hours ago
Ingen aning. Du får ha aska från djur, men man får inte ha mormor i en urna i bokhyllan.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Can’t have shit in Sweden.
Dojan@pawb.social 12 hours ago
Human remains aren’t allowed to be kept. I’ve no idea about human faeces.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Now I have an image of a swedish home having grandma’s last shit in a jar on their mantelpiece because they weren’t allowed to keep her ashes
jdr@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
What if it’s both?
Dojan@pawb.social 12 hours ago
I think combining the remains with faeces is probably illegal, because you aren’t allowed to debase them.