Water Urns/Scattering Ashes

[hby9628]

Im due to scatter my dads ashes soon and his wish is to be in the water. We’ve found a beautiful spot to do this and have got approval from the people who own the land. The spot we’ve found is a river and I was looking at water urns. Does anybody have an experience of using one? I don’t want it to just sink to the bottom I’m hoping it might float a little down the river first.
Also I don’t know what to do “ceremony” wise. I think I’ll find it hard not to cry but want to do something. I’ll probably put together some music. I’m also thinking of getting biodegradable petals to scatter.

We scattered part of my mum's ashes in the sea. We went to the beach and dug out her initials in the sand on a secluded part of the beach at low tide, covered them up and placed stones where we had dug and waited for the sea to come back in and wash her away.

No special ceremony, just close family together and we sat on some rocks and waited for the tide to come in. It was lovely.

It's not something I've done but I've read about bad experiences of this and so I do know you need something to check the wind direction before you do any scattering. There was one case where people tried to do it on a beach and it all blew back on to people on the beach.

so avoid very windy days and make sure immediately before you scatter you've checked wind direction.

@kangeetoyes I’ve read that too. I’ve just received a water urn which will float him along the river (hopefully). Just need to get him in the urn successfully!