lea 79
01-10-2003, 12:13
I would be interested in speaking with people who has a loved one resting at the Grenoside Cremotorium.
I lost my mum in May of this year, myself and my younger sister thought we had a found the perfect resting place for our mum, until Sunday 28th Sept when we visited the cremotorium. My mum as a plaque and we had placed flowers,a candle, a small pebble and a few cards from the flowers around the plaque, only to discover these have been moved. We had no idea as to why they had been removed or who had removed them, which as you can imagine caused extra grief at a difficult enough time.
I contacted the cremotorium On Monday and was advised that and I quote ''the grounds were starting to look tacky and shrine like '' therefore everything had been removed except for the fresh flowers (even dried flowers had been taken) and to come up and collect the goods as they had all been kept. On Tuesday I went to collect the items only to be told I had to search through a pile of cards and 3 cardboard boxes full of other peoples personal belongings, this as you can imagine was very distressing. After searching through I eventually got 2 of the 3 cards back and the candle. I am disgusted at the treatment I have been dealt by The Staff at The Grenoside Cremotorium, surely all the deceased next of kin's could have been contacted by letter to notify ourselves that the items must be removed so that myself and others did not have to sift through boxes where peoples belongings had just been thrown in haphazardly. I was then told that they only permitted candles, windcharms, cards etc etc in the Peter pan garden ( a resting place for children) this infuriated me further I ask '' Does the passing of a loved one become less painful because they died has an adult ??'' I am disgusted.
I lost my mum in May of this year, myself and my younger sister thought we had a found the perfect resting place for our mum, until Sunday 28th Sept when we visited the cremotorium. My mum as a plaque and we had placed flowers,a candle, a small pebble and a few cards from the flowers around the plaque, only to discover these have been moved. We had no idea as to why they had been removed or who had removed them, which as you can imagine caused extra grief at a difficult enough time.
I contacted the cremotorium On Monday and was advised that and I quote ''the grounds were starting to look tacky and shrine like '' therefore everything had been removed except for the fresh flowers (even dried flowers had been taken) and to come up and collect the goods as they had all been kept. On Tuesday I went to collect the items only to be told I had to search through a pile of cards and 3 cardboard boxes full of other peoples personal belongings, this as you can imagine was very distressing. After searching through I eventually got 2 of the 3 cards back and the candle. I am disgusted at the treatment I have been dealt by The Staff at The Grenoside Cremotorium, surely all the deceased next of kin's could have been contacted by letter to notify ourselves that the items must be removed so that myself and others did not have to sift through boxes where peoples belongings had just been thrown in haphazardly. I was then told that they only permitted candles, windcharms, cards etc etc in the Peter pan garden ( a resting place for children) this infuriated me further I ask '' Does the passing of a loved one become less painful because they died has an adult ??'' I am disgusted.