Cremation, first introduced in the UK early in the twentieth century, is now the choice of a majority of people and its popularity is evidenced by the number of imaginative things you can now do with somebody’s ashes. They can be fired into space or deposited in water to create a marine reef; you can have them incorporated into glass and made into jewellery, paperweights or vases. They can be put into shotgun cartridges, turned into fish bait or added to fireworks to ensure your send-off goes with a bang, or even compressed to create teeny little diamonds.
