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Woman is Addicted to Eating the Ashes of Her Late Husband

by Eric Limer | 12:55 pm, August 9th, 2011

The TLC show My Strange Addiction features people with, well, strange addictions including some notable subjects addicted to things like eating powdered cleaning products, taking laxitives, and now eating ashes of a deceased family member. Casie, the ash-eater in question, recently lost her husband to a freak asthma attack and has since developed not only a strong compulsion to keep his ashes at her side at all times but also to eat them.

The behavior reportedly started when Casie was transferring the ashes from a box to a special urn. She got some ashes on her finger and, not wanting to just brush them off, licked them off, starting a habit that has become compulsive. At the time the episode was filmed, Casie had been eating the ashes for two months. In total, she is reported to have ingested about six pounds of the ashes, despite the fact that they taste awful, something Casie is willing to admit.

Allow me to make wild conjectures that I am in no way qualified to make, but I believe this disorder is probably a combination of things. There is an established disorder called Pica, which causes sufferers to crave all manner of inedible material including ashes, dirt, rust, clay, soap, pretty much anything you can think of and put in your mouth, that may be partly to blame. There is also the fact that she’s obviously grief-stricken and trying hold onto her husband as best she can. Still, its worth noting that her attachment to her husband’s ashes and her compulsion to eat them seem fundamentally opposed; she is bound to run out of ashes eventually, violently breaking the cycle of both dependencies.

There’s no word on how Casie is doing at the moment, but the end of the episode revealed that she checked into a facility for inpatient treatment without the ashes by her side. It’s unknown whether or not she has since slid back into the habit, but for her sake I hope not. If you are ingesting ashes, between the chemicals involved in cremation and eating the inanimate material with which you have developed an unhealthily strong relationship, things are probably going to end badly.

(via Daily Mail, All Headline News)

  • Anonymous

    I heard she had to quit not because it’s gross, but because she was running out of ashes to eat!

  • kat62

    Poor soul.. really needs intensive therapeutic intervention!

  • Lesfara

    So instead of spreading his ashes somewhere he once loved, or keep em in the urn, she decides to eat them, then shits them out.  Nice fitting end for somebody you care about.. God these people are stupid.

  • http://CRZ.net/ CRZ

    I guarantee you dude does not care either way.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not pica. Pica is a very specific nutritional deficiency, not something that just happens.

  • Dr Coene

    Well done.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000107381005 Sara Strawberii

    Honestly I feel bad for Casie, but at the same time I’m thinking, “Eww gross really?” If you really love someone and miss him/her so much whom is not 100% by your side anymore, why should you make everything worse and start fading more and more away to the person, by eating him/her, when you know that they will come right out? Anyways, I hope everything turned out ok. Lord knows how she is doing now. 
    This also got me thinking, “Isn’t this sort of like cannibalism?” :/

  • You_stink

    LMFAO yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

  • Lol-imfunny

    Alright, this girl right here, tops all the fucked up people in this world. I find this more disturbing than a zombie ripping someones internal organs out with its two front teeth and hands behind its back naked while the human is singing johnny cash. Yeah, way more disturbing than that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Anil-Kunte/100003693237193 Anil Kunte

    why ever not? good on her. shows respect for the dead.

  • Jenn

    Imagine how his parents feel, I would be pissed… I would either take them away with force or go to court. This is someones family member and this lady is eating him. I do feel she needs help and I feel for the loss, but its not fair to his mother.


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