Eating Husband's Ashes Comforts Widow

By KSEE News

Eating Husband's Ashes Comforts Widow

August 9, 2011 Updated Aug 9, 2011 at 7:59 AM PDT

(The Huffington Post) Losing a loved one is never easy, but when 26-year-old Casie lost her husband, Shawn, to a sudden asthma attack, the grieving process went in a direction she never expected.

Casie, a resident of Fayetteville, Tenn., appeared on the season finale of the TLC series My Strange Addiction found herself eating his cremated ashes as a form of comfort.

When the couple first met in 2008, it seemed like a match made in heaven.

"Everything I had ever wanted in a man was right in front of me," Casie said during the episode. "And it felt so great."

Casie's mom, Linda, says the two-and-a-half years her daughter was with Shawn were probably the only time in her daughter's life that she was truly happy.

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