Do you think human ashes can haunt people?

In My Humble Opinion
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There is a small chance that the dead person has become a preta and is unable to rise to the higher realms. If his/her dislike/affection/love/anger for you was particularly intense, it is possible that the will of such a preta could harm you in physical/psychological/psychic ways. Yes, even the intense affection of a person who has now died (especially one who died suddenly/violently) can become a sort of hate and rebound negatively on you. That is why it is of particular importance (in Hindu traditions) to perform the funeral rites with great care and technical correctness. If a funeral was conducted, with the correct rites prevalent in your tradition, there is little opportunity for a preta to bother you, or even to form in the first place.

Though, we do not retain the ashes of a dead person in the house. As part of the final rites, they are immersed in a river. I do not believe that the ashes are a source of trouble; it may be the nature of the person and the nature of the death itself. Or, as many posters have said, it may be purely psychosomatic.

22

“Goddamit, Walter! You fuckin’ asshole. Everything’s a fuckin’ travesty with you, man!”

23

Burn 'em, then drown them!

Now that’s what I call hate.

24

But, we wait till they give up the ghost themselves.

25

Yes, exactly. Ghosts are very likely not real. But the emotional issues involved could make a “haunting” real enough in its own way.

26

Drive out into the country and take a shovel. At leest 50 miles from home. Dig a pit at least a foot deep and drop them in there.
Go home and be thankful that’s the last you’ll ever see of that ash hole.

27

Even if we were to speak in terms of the “spirit world”, folks who were put to rest properly, tend not to “haunt” people.

28

Employ a fashionably dressed individual to carry out the offending ashes. We call said person a preta porter.

29

It’s never Lupus.

30

Your worrying could be what making you feel sick , if your heath issues do get worse it wouldn’t harm to see a doctor to rule out any health issues that happened to show at the same time the ashes arrived . LOL! I love #26 post !

31

Why not just get a grave site in the local cemetery and bury them there?

32

Have you tried running around your house waving your arms and shouting “boogety boogety” ‘Cause otherwise, I got nothin’.

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You know the Op has asked a serious question and has asked us for help.

Snarky posts to show off that you are the most sceptical poster on the boards arent really helping.

Look, even if gosts do not exist the word “Haunt” has no less than two other meanings that apply.
“be persistently and disturbingly present in (something).
“cities haunted by the shadow of cholera”
be persistently in the mind of (someone).
“the sight haunted me for years””

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Cat. Get a Cat. You’ll know if you’re haunted or not.

So I hear.

35

Is there any woo at all that is so wooey that you won’t be its advocate?

36

Dammit! Thunder stolen!

37

When come back to thread, bring ectoplasm.

38

Words to live by. :smiley:

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I am not supporting “woo” and if you actually bother to READ you’d see that:
Look, even if ghosts do not exist the word “Haunt” has no less than two other meanings that apply.
"be persistently and disturbingly present in (something).
“cities haunted by the shadow of cholera”
be persistently in the mind of (someone).
“the sight haunted me for years”"

“Ghosts are very likely not real. But the emotional issues involved could make a “haunting” real enough in its own way.”

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But do you really think that the OP is using one of those other meanings for “haunting”, or do you just want to be pedantic about it?

(Myself, I think that the OP is being haunted by the ghost of a scrapped MRI machine.)