A Canadian author confessed to eating the ashes of her late husband after learning about his extensive infidelity.
In her memoir titled A Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards, Jessica Waite admitted to desecrating her husband Sean's ashes, mixing them with dog excrement, and even eating some of them, after learning about his secret adulterous double life.
Sean passed away in 2015 while in Texas on a work trip, according to the the New York Post. In her book, Waite describes how she stumbled upon his extensive browser history while on his iPad attempting to contact the hospital where his body was held.
Sean's web history contained searches for "Houston escorts", including their prices and locations. This led to months of Waite investigating her husband's infidelity, the Post reported.
Through her examination of her husband's possessions and digital footprint, she learned that he cheated on her on multiple occasions and regularly hired escorts. She also learned that, on many of the nights he claimed to have been working late, he had actually been downloading, organizing and categorizing hundreds of pornographic files onto his computer.
He had even been renting an apartment in Colorado to serve as a meeting place for escorts.
Waite wrote about how these revelations were too much for her to bear. In an emotionally charged moment, she went out into her garden with the bag of her husband's ashes and mixed them into some of her dog's stool.
"I've desecrated the remains of my partner in life," Waite wrote. "But then, in despair and guilt, took more of his ashes — and actually ate them. The remains feel dry against my fingertips, coarser than baking powder, grainier than salt. They mix with the teary water, a mineral mud on the back of my tongue. I swallow."
Though she has moved on with a different partner, Waite wrote about how the circumstances she faced affected her deeply, and that she will carry those experiences with her for the rest of her life.
"I feel better and stronger than before, but I still cry almost every day, and I still feel like a part of me has died," Waite wrote. "Because the part of me that existed within Sean did."
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