Unclaimed Saskatchewan: Caring for unclaimed cremated remains

Compared to a person’s lifespan, cremating a body doesn’t take long: About 180 minutes.
However, at some funeral homes in Saskatchewan, urns containing cremated human remains have been waiting to be picked up for years — in some cases, decades.
Numerous factors may be at play when this happens. Another death, like that of a partner, can leave an urn without a destination. It may be an unsettled family issue, a question of emotional stability or it may have just been indefinitel