The process of cremation and placing ashes in an urn is generally agreed by scholars to date back to around 3000 BC, to the Neolithic / Stone Age period. And really not much has changed since then.
The key drawback of any vessel containing cremated remains (including wooden, cardboard, plastic boxes, or within fake concrete rocks) is that there is a very real and eventual risk the vessel will break, spilling the contents.
Not to mention wood boxes for ashes look, well, like a casket. Which is exactly what they are – a mini casket. Not exactly the sort of thing most of us choose to display in the living room.
So, from our experience we see most urns, wooden & cardboard boxes end up at the back of a shelf or in a cupboard. Often a few pile up back there.
It’s an ignominious end for a loved one.
That’s the reason we started Reterniti,.
We thought there has to be a better, smarter way of handling, transporting and memorialising cremated remains.
To us a new fancier box or urn isn’t the solution, it perpetuates the problem. It’s still just ashes inside something.
A bag full of ashes isn’t all that user-friendly to hold close. You’d never willingly plunge your hand into a bag of ashes. You’d never normally hold ashes.
But with a Reterniti Stone you can. And it’s not just okay, it’s pleasing. Comforting.
A Reterniti Stone is a kind of reframing moment. You’re actually holding them.
And furthermore they comfortably and unobtrusively sit well in nearly all home locations.
I keep my dog Hogan’s Reterniti Stone on my work desk.
Why not?
Reterniti Stones were inspired by personal events following the loss of our beautiful Golden Retriever in Australia, but created and launched in New Zealand.
Reterniti is now available for pets and people across both countries.
Learn more at: www.reterniti.com
