The Sun
A WOMAN has confessed to eating her dead husband’s ashes – and says that it’s helped her lose three stone since his death.
Casie, 26, from Tennessee, lost her husband Sean just two and a half years after meeting him.
The couple, who married ten months after they met in 2009, had been inseparable before Sean’s fatal asthma attack which is when Casie’s “world stopped turning”.
Initially Casie found comfort in carrying Sean’s ashes around with her, taking him wherever she went.
Speaking on TLC’s My Strange Addiction, Casie explains: “I take my husband everywhere, to the grocery store, shopping, to the movies, out to eat, anywhere I go he goes.
“Every time I go to the grocery store I buy the food that he likes, when I cook I buy the food that he likes, I don’t eat it but I cook for him.
“Some people laugh, they think I’m playing but I’m serious, he’s my husband.”
However, Casie’s addiction evolved into a more dangerous obsession.
She says: “I guess with the transfer of his cremains some got into the cardboard box as well and that spilled out on my hands
“I didn’t want to wipe him off, that’s my husband I didn’t want to wipe him away so I just licked him off my fingers.
“And here I am today almost two months later and I can’t stop, I’m eating my husband.”
Explaining her method of eating, Casie says: “First I lick my finger and I don’t just dip it in I swirl around to get it caked on there good and then I just eat it.
“It tastes like rotten eggs, sand and sand paper but I’ve grown to love that taste, it started off as not wanting to get rid of him and it’s progressed into eating him
“I’ve lost 42lbs since my husband passed away basically the only thing I’m eating are his ashes.”
Casie snacks on Sean’s ashes around 5-6 times a day and has now eaten almost a pound of his remains, leaving her feeling hopelessly guilty.
She continues: “When I open up the urn I get a sense of happiness, it’s like an adrenaline rush for me and the more I eat the more excited I get until I realise there’s not a lot left.
“Then a few minutes later I feel horrible because I did it.
“It makes me feel embarrassed, ashamed, disgusted with myself, confused, crazy – you gotta be a really sick person to eat someone’s ashes.”
