{"id":9668,"date":"2010-10-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/23\/canadian-hindu-community-develops-guidelines-for-spreading-ashes-on-public-waterways\/"},"modified":"2010-10-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T12:00:00","slug":"canadian-hindu-community-develops-guidelines-for-spreading-ashes-on-public-waterways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/10\/23\/canadian-hindu-community-develops-guidelines-for-spreading-ashes-on-public-waterways\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Hindu Community Develops Guidelines for Spreading Ashes on Public Waterways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/article\/875558--hindu-community-works-on-guidelines-for-spreading-ashes-on-waterways\">www.thestar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, CANADA, October 14, 2010: Final rites for a loved one are a serious enough business without the added fear of breaking the law to follow custom. So Canada&#8217;s Hindu community has begun releasing a set of guidelines that allow the ancient practice of spreading ashes on water without running afoul of modern environmental concerns. &#8220;There was so much guilt that I experienced myself 14 years ago, when I spread my father&#8217;s ashes in Lake Ontario,&#8221; recalls Pandit Roopnauth Sharma, 58, who is leading the effort. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know if it was legal. I was uncomfortable. People are always looking over their shoulder.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Hindu Federation, of which Sharma is president, has worked on the guidelines to educate its community, in co-operation with municipalities and the province. The first phase of those guidelines encourages mourners to pick a spot at least half a kilometre from shore. Other rules will be released in coming weeks and posted on the federation&#8217;s website and at temples, Sharma said.<\/p>\n<p>The province has clarified its position on the Ministry of Consumer Affairs website. Approval isn&#8217;t needed to spread ashes on Crown land, such as provincial parks and conservation areas, the website says. But it&#8217;s not legal to do it on private land, or private waterways, without the owner&#8217;s consent. And &#8220;only a handful of leaves and flowers&#8221; should accompany the ashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.thestar.com TORONTO, CANADA, October 14, 2010: Final rites for a loved one are a serious enough business without the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}