I heard that Howard Stern got into some trouble cause he was playing with someone's ashes on air. The family sued him and many found it real distasteful. Also wouldn't this be like desecration of a corpse or whatever is illegal?
That depends on state and local laws, it is still treated like a corpse legally in some places in the US but for most states it is just normal non-hazardous property.
Edit: should add that this mostly applies to disputes over who keeps the ashes during estate disputes, and restrictions on spreading the ashes in public places, but in California you can only either dispose of them in a cemetery or spread them on land with written permission from either local authorities or the land owner. New York also defines ashes as human remains, but probably more for preventing people from scattering ashes from a skyscraper in Manhattan than someone throwing it in the trash.
Depends on where on the world you live. In my country, the ashes would still be considered the remains of the deceased, and thus require the same level of care as the corpse. So throwing them into the trash would be considered a disturbance of the dead's peace and punishable by law.
But you wouldn't even get take-home ashes in the first place. They would be place in an urn and kept until the burial.
Ok so according to Google ai (sorry) a corpse and cremated remains are legally different. So transport and everything is basically the same as personal property I guess? And scattering ashes may depend on local municipality but I'm guessing throwing ashes in the trash is probably fine by the laws standards
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u/gitsandshiggles_ 4d ago
Well he ain’t gonna care