Um. Wife eating husbands ashes...

[poopedydoop]

I'm watching My Strange Addiction on Netflix, and this lady is eating her dead husbands ashes. 

I am scarred. I don't think I can ever forget this, but yet I can't stop watching. She's just locked herself in the bathroom to eat some more of him. 

[isabel]

Ahhhh GROSS! Ew. That seriously creeps me out!

[ralphlauren]

Fucking gross

[poopedydoop]

She's eaten over a pound of him!

[Doc_Lobster]

Why did she start that?

[poopedydoop]

Feb 10, 2013 0:13:09 GMT -5 Doc_Lobster said:

Why did she start that?

She spilled a bit of him by accident and it got on her fingers. She didn't want to just 'wipe him off' like she was getting rid of him, so she licked it off.

[Doc_Lobster]

Interesting.

And...what, she liked it? It tasted good?

[Doc_Lobster]

Also I wonder what she will do when he is all gone.

And does it bother her or feel like getting rid of him when she poops?

These are just rhetorical questions, I know people don't have the answers. Fascinating, though.

[poopedydoop]

She liked the idea of him being with her forever.

[simplehuman]

This is gross but I came in here to say that your name made me giggle pretty hard.

[Doc_Lobster]

Feb 10, 2013 0:16:10 GMT -5 poopedydoop said:

She liked the idea of him being with her forever.

Well, except that it is very unlikely that she is actually absorbing any of him as nutrient and is just pooping almost all of him out a few hours later.

lol

[poopedydoop]

It's really sad. She is threatening to kill herself if she can't eat the ashes.

[speckledfrog]

Feb 10, 2013 0:16:55 GMT -5 HRH Queen Dick I said:

This would be a variation of pica, right?

I think it's a variation of a mental illness.

[margotmacomber]

I'm with Doc.  What happens when she poops?  Or is there some magical undiscovered pathway the ashes flow through?  Ew.  Ew.

[poopedydoop]

She's in an inpatient program now. Thank goodness that's over, I felt like it was holding me hostage.

[PeonyParty]

I'm pretty sure an episode of Drop Dead Diva covered this.

[Doc_Lobster]

Plus even if she absorbed all of him and he became part of her tissues, cell turnover happens all the time and the cells made from parts of his ashes would degrade and die anyway.

Maybe I'm not romantic enough.

[speckledfrog]

There was a post secret awhile back where the mom ate some of her daughter's ashes. I cannot imagine the heartbreak one must be feeling to be moved to do so.

[poopedydoop]

I guess it's like the werewolves from True Blood. When the pack leader dies, everyone has to eat him so show him respect.

I can't imagine. I think even having the ash on my skin would freak me out. But I am easily freaked out.

[PeonyParty]

Feb 10, 2013 0:24:22 GMT -5 @gypsy said:

Something about ashes being put in plastic bags until an urn is selected (at least on tv) bothers me. You can't wipe all of that out. Same if you sprinkle the ashes someplace. That, and some of you probably gets left in the thing/kiln/whatever that burns you up.

Do they clean them out between each person? If not, she could be eating other peoples ashes as well.

[mollz007]

That's not only gross, it's really sad.

[snakeoiltanker]

I will never forget seeing that episode. Especially when she said that no one knew she was doing it. I just imagined being that mans mom or sister and learning all about this by seeing his wife eating his ashes on tv!

[kwynn]

Feb 10, 2013 0:29:02 GMT -5 @gypsy said:

Feb 10, 2013 0:27:23 GMT -5 PeonyParty said:

Do they clean them out between each person? If not, she could be eating other peoples ashes as well.

I have no idea and it's too morbid to research.

In my area, you use an individual container for cremation. You are placed in a temporary casket and that is cremated around you, and that way, it's individual and not other people's ashes.