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The last thing I did for my mother was illegal

An urn cost more than my rent. So I scattered my mother’s ashes at Yosemite from a Ziploc bag, without the federal permit I couldn’t afford to wait for My mother is in a Ziploc bag on my lap, wedged b…

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The Guardian United Kingdom · 16 October 2026

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