10 Sep 2024

Shower Thoughts: Who owns human ashes?

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 10 September 2024

Have you ever been standing in the shower, when suddenly, the noise in your brain clears and, in its place, appears the perfect thought?

That's a Shower Thought, and RNZ's Nights is aiming to answer those unshakeable questions lurking in the back of your mind.

Tonight's question: Who owns human ashes?

Claire Tyler is a partner at Rainey Collins lawyers in Wellington specialising in property law and joins Emile Donovan.

A urn at a Wellington funeral home.

Photo: RNZ / Alexander Robertson