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25 Cremation Innovations

From Cremated Jewelry to Blown Glass Memorials

— April 20, 2011 — Unique
Death is nothing to get excited over, but these cremation innovations certainly are. Cremating a loved one is a painful experience to say the least. Thankfully, this list is filled with urns, jewelry and designs that help you celebrate the life of your lost loved one.

Crematoriums are places of death but they can also power life, as evidenced by one small UK town's plan to heat its swimming pool with the heat from a local crematorium. If swimming in a crematorium-heated pool doesn't appeal to you, then maybe you'd prefer wearing your loved one's ashes in a locket or (to paraphrase Jackie Gleason) send them straight to the moon!

Whether you are looking for alternative urns or just want to see some cool ash art, you should definitely check out all of these cremation innovations.
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Crematorium Public Pool Pool Heating
Crematorium Public Pool Pool Heating
Redditch Council Could Save Money With a Corpse-Heated Pool
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Memorable Pet Remains
Memorable Pet Remains
Alex Lynch's Pet Cremation Tablets Let You Remember Your Furry Friend
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Characterized Cisterns
Characterized Cisterns
Leave a Posthumous Pitcher With Family to Remember You By
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Creepy Cremated Swimming
Creepy Cremated Swimming
UK Town is Proposing an Eco-Conscious Crematorium-Heated Pool
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Your Ashes on the Moon
Your Ashes on the Moon
Celestis Cremations
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Urnvertising
Urnvertising
Terminal Cancer Patient Aaron Jamison is Selling Ad Space on His Urn
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Urns Made of Ash
Urns Made of Ash
Designers Conceptualize a Way to Retroactively Immortalize Kurt Cobain
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Cremated Ash Art
Cremated Ash Art
Jason Lazarus Photographs the Remains of Robert Heinecken
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Rest in Peace on the Moon
Rest in Peace on the Moon
Memorial Spaceflights Take Your Ashes to Space
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Urn Your Baseball Team's Logo
Urn Your Baseball Team's Logo
RIP With MBL Cremation Urn
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Carbon Copies
Carbon Copies
Pencils Made From The Ashes of the Departed
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Eco-Friendly Funerals
Eco-Friendly Funerals
Green Cremation Saves Trees and Budgets in India
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Eco-Friendly Funerary Urns
Eco-Friendly Funerary Urns
ARKA Acorn-Shaped Cremain Containers Made of Pulped Paper
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Cremated Jewelry
Cremated Jewelry
Shimrit Lugasi Creates Unconventionally Artistic Accessories
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Coral Reef Cremations
Coral Reef Cremations
The Neptune Society Makes Eco-Friendly Afterlife a Reality
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Smoking Kurt Cobain's Ashes
Smoking Kurt Cobain's Ashes
'Death Cycle' Art Installation Sparks Controversy
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Deep Sea Bio-Coffins
Deep Sea Bio-Coffins
Jack Hokanson's Genesis Biopod is a Neat Way to Grieve a Loved One
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Beautiful Biodegradable Urns
Beautiful Biodegradable Urns
Ossuaries That Give Loved Ones Back to the Earth
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Diamonds Made From Human Hair, Dog Fur and Cremated Ashes
Diamonds Made From Human Hair, Dog Fur and Cremated Ashes
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Blown Glass Memorials
Blown Glass Memorials
Cremated Remains Artfully Preserved in 'Memory Glass'
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Death As Art
Death As Art
Oil Paintings Using Your Loved One's Cremated Ashes
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Cremation Tattoos
Cremation Tattoos
Kim Mordue Tattoos Her Son's Ashes onto Her Skin
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Junk Food Container Urns
Junk Food Container Urns
Inventor of Pringles Can Buried in One
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Mourning Jewelry
Mourning Jewelry
Necklaces That Capsulate Cremation Ashes
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Macabre Mourning Jewelry
Macabre Mourning Jewelry
Anna Schwamborn Lets You Wear Hair and Cremated Ash
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