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I found a dead person in the dumpster at my work.

MeanJoePhaser

MeanJoePhaser

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No, not a fresh corpse. My work is near a residental area and since there's no lock on the dumpster people toss household junk and garbage in there. I was taking out garbage this morning and saw a strange metallic object with collums on the side, thought it was part of a fancy lamp. I was surprised when it turned out to be someone's mortal remains, an urn with someone's ashes in it, has their name on it.

I'm creeped out for the rest of the day.

Curiosity is a bitch. Moral quandry as to what to do with it. I told some other people, maybe they'll have some idea.
 
Robert Maxwell said:
Wow, how much would someone have to hate you to dump your ashes in the trash?
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No kidding. Even if you hate them, you could at least mix their ashes with some potting soil or something and use them for fertilizer to grow some flowers or something. If you really don't like the person, perhaps you could grow some tomatoes and feed them to a pig. But to just toss them in the trash--that's not even giving it any thought.
 
I was thinking perhaps someone got evicted or foreclosed and left the stuff behind. Whoever cleaned it up tossed it. Still thats seems callous to me, and I'm not religious.

I dumped the problem on my boss. There was a funeral ledger thingie there, too, but for someone else. Maybe they are connected.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
I was thinking perhaps someone got evicted or foreclosed and left the stuff behind. Whoever cleaned it up tossed it. Still thats seems callous to me, and I'm not religious.

I dumped the problem on my boss. There was a funeral ledger thingie there, too, but for someone else. Maybe they are connected.
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That was my first thought, too. I can't think of any circumstances in which someone who actually knew the deceased (and thus had possession of their ashes) would just toss them out with the garbage. It is more likely a disinterested third party did it than someone developing a retroactive hatred for a dead person. :lol:
 
I don't think it's necessarily callous if that is indeed what happened, it's just a jar of ash at the end of the day, perhaps they tried to track down the owner and failed?

If I ended up with such an item and could not locate an interested party i'd probably just chuck it in the trash too.
 
MeanJoePhaser said:
No, not a fresh corpse. My work is near a residental area and since there's no lock on the dumpster people toss household junk and garbage in there. I was taking out garbage this morning and saw a strange metallic object with collums on the side, thought it was part of a fancy lamp. I was surprised when it turned out to be someone's mortal remains, an urn with someone's ashes in it, has their name on it.

I'm creeped out for the rest of the day.

Curiosity is a bitch. Moral quandry as to what to do with it. I told some other people, maybe they'll have some idea.
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That is just wrong. If it were an empty urn, I could understand. But they did not even bother to scatter the ashes first?
 
ConRefit79 said:
That is just wrong. If it were an empty urn, I could understand. But they did not even bother to scatter the ashes first?
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For who's benefit?

If respecting the dead is so important, how do you know you'd even be doing what they wanted? Perhaps being scattered is the last thing they wanted, maybe that's why they were still in an urn.

Best not to worry about it, it's just a jar full of ash.
 
T'Baio said:
Why would that creep you out all day? It's a jar of ash.
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I guess in theory it shouldn't, since I have someone's ashes at home. But, remains are just a very odd thing to stumble across early in the morning (unless you live in Detroit). I suppose we insulate ourselves from death on some level, especially where we earn our money.

I forgot to mention the empty dvd cases dumped with it (I assume), DAWN OF THE DEAD, THE RING 2, and THE THREE STOOGES.

Could be an omen, the dead are coming back, including Larry, Moe and Curly, possibly Shemp, too.
 
My restaurant is located along the banks of the Mississippi River. A few years ago, a dead body washed up on shore right outside of our patio. That was creepy.
 
Are you sure it was a human, or a pet with a human's name? Some people are pretty obsessed with their pets, and maybe someone thought they needed to move on. Not very nice but... like others have said, it's not as bad as an actual corpse, which is what I assumed when I entered the thread.
 
I actually want my ashes to be just dumped in the trash like that. Is that weird? I don't want them scattered anywhere.
 
Kestra said:
I actually want my ashes to be just dumped in the trash like that. Is that weird? I don't want them scattered anywhere.
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Nah, it isn't weird.

I don't want my survivors to spend more than 30 bucks on me after I'm dead. So they can even skip the cremation before they dump me in a bin.
 
Marie1 said:
Are you sure it was a human, or a pet with a human's name? Some people are pretty obsessed with their pets, and maybe someone thought they needed to move on.
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The birth year and death year were engraved, 1920-something to 2000-something. Not too many pets live to almost 80. Parrots? Those giant turtles?

Not very nice but... like others have said, it's not as bad as an actual corpse, which is what I assumed when I entered the thread.
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Gotta use sensational titles if you wanna sell papers. ;)
 
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