Originally Posted by suginami

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Went back to the funeral home for a sashimi and sushi lunch accompanied with lots of beer, sake, and whiskey. Started to feel ill due to too little sleep, jet lag, and mixing raw fish with three kinds of liquor.

After lunch, we headed back to the crematorium. We were ushered into a room, and there in front of us were my wife's fathers burned ashes and bones on a table. I was shocked. Wasn't expecting that display, but it sure is a good visual of the ashes to ashes dust to dust Biblical passage. The crematorium employee picked up random pieces of bones with large wooden chopsticks, and explained which part of the body it was from.

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