There’s a metal identification tag that goes with the body the entire time it’s in the funeral home/crematorium, according to my partner who works at one. It gets taped to the outside of the urn.
That’s not foolproof though, the wrong ashes getting released to someone is rare but is usually easy to spot afterwards.
There’s no way for you to 100% guarantee that the ashes are your loved one, except that there’s no strong benefit to a crematorium doing that and heads would roll if they did.
There have been scandals where pets were cremated in bulk then the combined ashes divvied out, but not humans.
Here the tag is a ceramic tile that is put in the coffin before cremation. And i think it is verified by at least two people. But in the end, if enough people fuck up or fake, it could be anybody.
There’s a metal identification tag that goes with the body the entire time it’s in the funeral home/crematorium, according to my partner who works at one. It gets taped to the outside of the urn.
That’s not foolproof though, the wrong ashes getting released to someone is rare but is usually easy to spot afterwards.
There’s no way for you to 100% guarantee that the ashes are your loved one, except that there’s no strong benefit to a crematorium doing that and heads would roll if they did.
There have been scandals where pets were cremated in bulk then the combined ashes divvied out, but not humans.
Here the tag is a ceramic tile that is put in the coffin before cremation. And i think it is verified by at least two people. But in the end, if enough people fuck up or fake, it could be anybody.