CINCINNATI - Friends of Patricia Renick, a Cincinnati sculptor who died last May, were given an unusual task at her memorial service.
They were handed envelopes containing her ashes and told to spread them wherever they felt was appropriate.
Since then, the ashes have reportedly been spread all over the world: from a courtyard at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Mo., to the side of a Tibetan mountain covered with Buddhist prayer flags.
The idea came from Laura Chapman, longtime companion of the 75-year-old professor emeritus of fine art at the University of Cincinnati.
Chapman says the idea grew out of a conversation the two had about memorials, cemetery art and traditions for dealing with death.
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