From the Daily Mail:
Jane Austen museum forced to ban fans from scattering human ashes in her garden
By
Emily Andrews
30th November 2008
The 17th-century cottage, with its quintessentially English garden filled with flower beds and herbs, has long been a place of pilgrimage for devotees of Jane Austen.
Now it seems increasing numbers are choosing the author's former home, which has become a museum in her honour, as their final resting place.
Museum staff have been shocked to find mounds of human ash around the grounds, left by relatives creeping in to honour the final wishes of loved ones.
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