To be truthful,my personal opinion is one which I have hesitated to post as I have no wish to upset anyone.
I do not think it matters really where your ashes are scattered ,I stress that is a personal opinion and I respect different opinions.
It is what comforts those left which matters most along with the wishes of the deceased.
Quite some years ago,people living near Manchester,s Southern cemetery
were worried as the number of cremations was really a lot.
Many people who had been cancer patients were cremated there.
There must have been a report which raised the fears of local residents as to the amount of radiation released during a cremation.
Not sure how that was solved or even disproved.
Some people keep a loved one’s ashes to eventually add their’s to and both be scattered together.
My children asked that their father’s ashes be kept and mine (eventually)mingled with them and both be blown in the wind off a lovely Shropshire hillside together.
That suits me and is what my husband wanted.
Cremation was at one time thought to be the answer to the crowded graveyard problem but seemingly it is not so simple.
But the reverence for a human body is age old,and that should not be lost,
whatever the religious beliefs ,or none ,of those concerned.
Viktoria.( one foot in the grave—-Oh no, I mean the urn,)