Death is nothing to get excited over, but these cremation innovations certainly are. Cremating a loved one is a painful experience to say the least. Thankfully, this list is filled with urns, jewelry and designs that help you celebrate the life of your lost loved one.
Crematoriums are places of death but they can also power life, as evidenced by one small UK town's plan to heat its swimming pool with the heat from a local crematorium. If swimming in a crematorium-heated pool doesn't appeal to you, then maybe you'd prefer wearing your loved one's ashes in a locket or (to paraphrase Jackie Gleason) send them straight to the moon!
Whether you are looking for alternative urns or just want to see some cool ash art, you should definitely check out all of these cremation innovations.
25 Cremation Innovations
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Cremation Tattoos
Kim Mordue Tattoos Her Son's Ashes onto Her Skin
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Diamonds Made From Human Hair, Dog Fur and Cremated Ashes
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Macabre Mourning Jewelry
Anna Schwamborn Lets You Wear Hair and Cremated Ash
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Junk Food Container Urns
Inventor of Pringles Can Buried in One
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Urnvertising
Terminal Cancer Patient Aaron Jamison is Selling Ad Space on His Urn
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Urns Made of Ash
Designers Conceptualize a Way to Retroactively Immortalize Kurt Cobain
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Death As Art
Oil Paintings Using Your Loved One's Cremated Ashes
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Creepy Cremated Swimming
UK Town is Proposing an Eco-Conscious Crematorium-Heated Pool
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Coral Reef Cremations
The Neptune Society Makes Eco-Friendly Afterlife a Reality
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Beautiful Biodegradable Urns
Ossuaries That Give Loved Ones Back to the Earth
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Deep Sea Bio-Coffins
Jack Hokanson's Genesis Biopod is a Neat Way to Grieve a Loved One
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Carbon Copies
Pencils Made From The Ashes of the Departed
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Rest in Peace on the Moon
Memorial Spaceflights Take Your Ashes to Space
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Cremated Jewelry
Shimrit Lugasi Creates Unconventionally Artistic Accessories
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Mourning Jewelry
Necklaces That Capsulate Cremation Ashes
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Eco-Friendly Funerals
Green Cremation Saves Trees and Budgets in India
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Blown Glass Memorials
Cremated Remains Artfully Preserved in 'Memory Glass'
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Smoking Kurt Cobain's Ashes
'Death Cycle' Art Installation Sparks Controversy
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Cremated Ash Art
Jason Lazarus Photographs the Remains of Robert Heinecken
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Eco-Friendly Funerary Urns
ARKA Acorn-Shaped Cremain Containers Made of Pulped Paper
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Memorable Pet Remains
Alex Lynch's Pet Cremation Tablets Let You Remember Your Furry Friend
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Urn Your Baseball Team's Logo
RIP With MBL Cremation Urn
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Your Ashes on the Moon
Celestis Cremations
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Characterized Cisterns
Leave a Posthumous Pitcher With Family to Remember You By
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Crematorium Public Pool Pool Heating
Redditch Council Could Save Money With a Corpse-Heated Pool
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