Empty Urn

 You read that right.

I called and spoke to Celia who said to meet her at the funeral home.

We went through the painful heart break of picking up my 

mothers urn and my keepsake.

During the night my brain kept playing over and over the scene where

the woman ( was Not Celia) picked at the sticker on the bottom of my keepsake

talking about how you remove it and there is a screw where the ashes are.

I was quite dizzy during this meeting and didnt recall what she said

about anything else.

All I recall thinking that night was 

they were supposed to fill it, and why does the felt sticker seem like it

hasnt been removed .

Finally I got out of bed and scraped the sticker off and opened it.

Empty.  

I was really bewildered.... i kept looking in there with a flashlight. 

I emailed them saying "isnt it supposed to have ashes in it?"

I thought maybe i was in error thinking they would do it.

Round and round my thoughts went all night. Thinking of how could i trust 

them to really put my moms ashes into it and that I would get up the courage

to watch incase they tried something.

The next morning my attention turned to my moms urn......

what if ....... 

I got it out of the velvet bag, it weighed 17 pounds it Must have the cremains in it 

Right?

wrong. 

First the nursing home breaks her leg and is full of deceit 

now this. 

Then the funeral home what... tries to rip me off? 

I called and Mike says that he saw the email and that he would come

pick up the urn and keepsake, take them back to the funeral home

and fill the keepsake. Ya Right. He thinks I dont know the urn is 

EMPTY. 

I exclaim "ITS EMPTY" and he replies yes I will fill it for you.

The URN is EMPTY!  and he had zero reaction. 

He KNEW. 

I said No, this is what we are going to do. I am going to bring this urn 

back and you are going to give me my mothers ashes. 

By now the urn was ruined and was bringing me trauma.

We brought back the urn and he said something about it being

an mistake and I replied We could have buried an empty urn!

I had him open the box so I could see the bag inside with the metal

tag and the certificate. 

How do I know they didnt just do all this Now?? 

How do I know they didnt just fake all this after the phone call?

you cannot just "look up" those numbers to compare them.

Celia ( the owner) called me wanting to make amends and saying how she wasnt 

there that morning.

I replied "we saw you there" - another lie. 

Reporting the nursing home resulted in nothing

why bother reporting this when all it does is result in lies

and me suffering ptsd. 

insult to injury

someone hit my car 

I think my luck has run out, or passed away.