Well, friends, I have learned something new today. I worked my way through college for two years in the Adams County Coroner's office located in St. Germain's Morturary (while living upstairs over the morturary) and had no idea these existed. It wasn't a crematory, but still. I suppose they just hung the tag on the casket and then hung it on the hook outside the oven, not necessarily putting it inside the oven. But the question is, how and why would it be discarded? Surely it wouldn't need to be discarded and there is no reason it couldn't be reused at a later date. On a back shelf, we had numerous boxes of cremains that weren't claimed. And in fact, I have some locksmith materials in one of those boxes from when the family purchased an urn. The boxes were very nice and sturdy and I kept one for future use. The boxes had paper tags glued to the end and when the ashes were put in an urn, there was usually a name plate on it. Boy, this brings back some creepy memories. Too bad this wasn't posted the week before Halloween!
