[Magdalen] Cremation (was A good idea?)

[Marion Thompson]

This makes me smile.

The ashes of a lot of target rifle shooters had their ashes scattered on 
the 1,000 yd firing point on Stickledown at Bisley.  In the end a formal 
area was set aside around the iconic Clock Tower at the much higher end 
of that range and I have attended a number of little ceremonies in that 
place.  Sic transit gloria mundi.

Jim has willed his remains to the University of Toronto Department of 
Medicine, so I guess he won't join his friends on Stickledown, although 
his heart is already there.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/24/2016 1:20 PM, James Handsfield wrote:
> My uncle, a great horse racing enthusiast, wanted his ashes scattered on a race track.  When he did, a friend of mine was working for the LA Turf Club and one day we all drove up to Arcadia, CA where Garay took us on a “tour” of the track.  We scattered Don’s ashes on the back straight of Santa Anita.
>
> Alleluia!  Christ is risen!
>
> James Handsfield
> jhandsfield at att.net
>
>> On Apr 24, 2016, at 1:06 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>> The wish of my mother's, to be scattered on Big Wood Lake, Burnett
>> County, Wisconsin where the family spent pleasant summers I did not
>> honor, and instead interred her ashes next to her brother and sisters
>> in the family plot in my home-town cemetery.  So bite me.
>