At the Da Vinci Charter Academy in California, a girl baked her grandpa’s ashed into cookies and gave them out to her classmates. Some of the students ate the cookies, knowing that they contained human remains. One student in particular unknowingly took a bite of the cookie and its strange texture made him think that the girl had put drugs in it. She laughed and told him that she had put ashes into the cookies. Previously, she had offered this same student ashes in exchange for doing her a favor, and he stated that he didn’t believe her until she pulled out the urn. The police are actively searching for a penal code that the girl has broken since there isn’t a crime that applies directly to putting remains into food.
This doesn’t really have much to do with colonial history but I thought it was absolutely insane. I saw it on Vice and I thought I definitely had to share this story with everyone. I suppose it does remind me of the Donner party a little bit. I think that maybe the girl has some underlying mental health issues since she nonchalantly explained to her classmates that she had put her grandpa’s ashes into cookies. However, in her mind, baking the cookies might have been an environmentally friendly and “delicious” way to free herself of him, especially since she seems to just carry around his urn. I am aware of some similar ways that people have dealt with grief, as eating the ashes of loved ones is not an unfamiliar practice. Maybe this whole situation was some sort of social experiment as some students knew about the ashes before eating and others didn’t. Overall, the subjects of death and remains are extremely unsettling to Americans; it's been embedded in our culture over decades and possibly centuries. It is a bit presumptuous for me to “diagnose” her with anything, but she is at least abnormal in her actions, logic and mentality. I wish that I knew her so that I could give my guess as to what’s happening in her mind.
https://www.tampabay.com/ap/national/police-say-teenager-baked-grandfathers-ashes-into-cookies-ap_national6564e1985c2c47eab47c006717f04990
Sometimes people grief abnormally, but it's not our job to judge, it's our obligation to understand and help that person. Kadar Price
ReplyDeletei agree with what you said especially when you said "that people have dealt with griefs, as eating the ashes of loved ones is not an unfamiliar practice."
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of that my strange addiction episode where the woman couldn't stop eating her husband's ashes.
ReplyDeleteViolet Wiedemer
I understand her grieving and maybe something wrong with her mentally but, this is WILD. And I can't believe kids who ate them knowing that they had ashes also, where is her mother?
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