text: The scattering of the ashes is a no-brainer. Surely God can accomplish the task of reconstituting the individual without the benefit of Google Maps. What will north, south, east, and west mean in the world to come, anyway? Ironically, the scattering of the ashes is, for many, exactly what the Church is holding up as a model (and rightly so) to dissuade folks from having private shrines--the "understanding how the loved one belong[s] to the entire community of faith and not just to his or her closest relatives."
  
  More irony: LGBT people in particular often feel that way. I know who many who had their ashes scattered far and wide.