Dunbar said there's a $300 fee to use the Scatter Garden to cast a person's ashes. The name of the deceased and their dates of birth and death can be added to the garden's granite monument for an ...

Many people inherit cremated ashes or have them and are not sure what to do with them, and the scatter garden fills that need, Johnson said. "You have a place to come back and remember them," he said.

Bloomington's Rose Hill Cemetery Scatter Garden. This month, the city of Bloomington opened its first cremains Scatter Garden at the historic Rose Hill Cemetery, which encompasses 28 acres off ...

Jennifer Beman, 54, of Takoma Park, stands at Memorial Park, in Takoma Park, Md., one of the proposed sites for a scatter garden. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) ...

The scatter garden was created in 2007 as a way to allow people to continue to be memorialized there. So far, there are 10 names engraved on a large stone marking the garden. Flowers are embedded ...

Steve Christensen, Mount Spokane State Park manager and ranger, gets the request for scattering of ashes at least two or three times a year. “People are allowed to spread ashes as long as they ...

Mourners are scattering human ashes in a community garden and volunteers are ticked — for a gross reason: ‘Quite distressing’ By . David Landsel. Published Feb. 7, 2025, 6:40 p.m. ET.

For inland scattering at the Garden of Peace, the booking fee is $320. The scattering of ashes at sea can cost about $200 without any rituals, and from $400 to $800 with rituals, according to ...

Don’t be a pain in the ash. A crew of gardeners banding together to beautify a formerly fallow scenic site are now pleading for people to stop illegally scattering human ashes at their ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church in downtown Kansas City recently renovated the north side of the church into a scatter garden for the ashes of those who have died.

Maybe the spot is a favorite fishing hole. Or you’ve selected a mountain with sweeping views of Spokane to scatter a loved one’s cremated remains. Before heading out with the urn, though, do ...

It is legal to scatter ashes on private property, like in your backyard. But not everyone in L.A. has a backyard. You could scatter them in someone else’s backyard, if you had their permission.