‘I turned my dad into a rock and threw him into the sea’

David combined his parents’ ashes to make special pebbles (Picture: Supplied)

On the desk in David Bailey’s home office sits a small collection of round white pebbles.

They look like stones shaped over centuries by water: solid, pale, and softly elliptical. But these ones are newly-created – made up by his parents’ DNA. 

When David’s dad, Clifford, died in 2015 at the age of 89, and his mum, Jessie, passed away five years ago, aged 90, they were both cremated.

However, rather than the traditional scattering of the ashes, and inspired after hearing about ceramic ‘parting stones’ from a friend in the funeral industry, he decided to do Read Entire Article