Walt Disney's themepark, Disneyland, in Anaheim, California has shut down the Pirates of the Carribean ride several times when people have been spotted dumping ashes into the water. Another favorite spreading ground is the Haunted Mansion cemetery.
A woman travels the globe, "spreading her husband's ashes in more than 20 places. A growing number of people are opting to cremate their loved ones in order to scatter their ashes -- a way of prolonging their goodbyes."
An unknown male visitor stops at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA and tells the doorman it was his father's favorite hotel and "dream to be buried" there. The man then handed doorman a $100 tip to "take a little walk" while he "spread the ashes of his father along the hotel's flower beds", just off Mason and California Streets. The man said the Fairmont "was as close to heaven [as his father] ever got in this life."
Brown, W. (2010). At the Fairmont, it was ashes to ashes, dust to. San Francisco Chronicle.
"62 years to the day since Mahatma Ghandi's assassination, ashes kept by a friend of the family for decades were finally sprinkled onto the waters of the Indian Ocean."
A celebrity's family decided to spread their loved one's ashes in Central Park, New York. Fearful that they'd be caught and stopped, they divided up the ashes into several paper cups. Then the group spread out and slowly dumped the ashes around as they walked through the park.
In the film series, Death the Trip of a Lifetime, a man, Joe Cannon, discusses how he had his wife, Terry Cannon's head cryogenically frozen, and the rest of her body cremated. With her cremains he had capsules made; he took one with every meal.
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