In addition to Preta Gil, meet other artists who also had the ashes distributed

Following the death of Preta Gil last August, it was announced that the singer’s ashes would be divided among close friends and family – as much as she had asked in life. Although the recipients have not been revealed, it is known that each one can give their portion a symbolic and emotionally significant end, such as turning part into jewelry or spreading in special places in Bahia.

A part will be permanently in Columbário of the Crematorium and Cemetery of Penance, in Rio’s Port Zone. The space has a realistic bust of the singer, which can be visited by fans and admirers.

The gesture of eternalizing artists through personalized honors after cremation has become more common among personalities and their families – as in the case of Rita Lee, Paulo Gustavo and Jô Soares. Each one has goodbye to their own way, always with a strong affective connection with the places or people who marked their trajectories.

Rita Lee, for example, had already made it clear in her books that she would like to be cremated and become life. “I want to be cremated and have the ashes thrown into my homemade garden without pesticides to turn me into a juicy lettuce,” he wrote into “another autobiography.” The desire has been respected by Roberto de Carvalho, his companion for over 40 years, who keeps the ashes at a special altar built in his son’s house, with a ball -shaped ballot. “Let’s play them in the garden, but only when I go up and meet her,” he told Veja magazine.

Already Jo Soares, who died in August 2022, had part of his ashes transformed into diamond at the initiative of his ex-wife, Flávia Soares. “A friend who introduced us said that her father had become a diamond in the Netherlands, and I did it. He is in a saved safe,” Flávia said in an interview with the conversation with Bial. “I don’t know what to do yet, but I want to do a patuá.”

Thales Bretas, widower of Paulo Gustavo, chose New York City to eternalize part of the humorist. In November 2021, seven months after the actor’s death, he spread the ashes in the Little Island public park on the banks of the Hudson River. “Feeling you in each place, in every friend, in every love spread around the world!” Bretas wrote in an emotional post on social networks.