Widow who ‘can't stop’ licking her late husband's ashes
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A reality show on TLC, ‘My Strange Addiction’, which takes a look into the less-than-orthodox compulsive habits of some interesting characters, has featured a woman who is so close to the memory of her late husband that she eats his ashes.
26-year-old Casie, who was widowed just two months before filming the show, is unable to stop herself from dipping her finger into her husband's urn of ashes and taking a lick of the grey dust.
She said she first tasted the remains of her husband, Shawn, when she transferred the ashes from a temporary cardboard box into a special memorial urn.
“Some of it spilled out on my hands. I didn't want to just wipe him away, so I just licked it off my fingers,” the Daily Mail quoted her as saying.
“And here I am today, almost two months later and I can't stop,” she added.
Shawn died from a sudden and severe asthma attack. The couple married in 2009 after Casie found “all she ever wanted in a man.”
The programme shows the distraught Casie carrying the urn full of ashes, an unwieldy black box everywhere she goes. She takes ‘him’ to the cinema, to the shops and to restaurants.
Despite the habit distressing her family and friends, Casie finds comfort in having his ashes at her side.
The series finale documented Casie's enrolment into therapy, with the hope of finding a way to end her worrying behaviour.
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