I'll add a story, A woman had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer when he died so he could still "help" in the kitchen.
I like that idea. I just had another friend who came back from a funeral of a friend of ours and she was wearing a small leather pouch around her neck. She comes up to me and says, here shake Jim's hand. Jim's family put his ashes in small vials and gave his friends a part of him. I wondered if I was shaking his hand or what other part I could have been shaking!