Woman Finds Out Roommate Stole Her Grandmother’s Ashes to Teach Her a ‘Lesson’

A woman revealed on Reddit that her roommate stole her grandmother’s ashes to teach her a “lesson.”

In the post, the 25-year-old woman shared that she lives with two roommates, one she gets along with and the other she has “clashed” with in the past. The 24-year-old roommate, whom she refers to as “S,” believes the poster is “too sentimental” and calls her “a Pinterest girlie” because she likes to decorate and keeps nostalgic items.

The woman explained that her grandmother died in 2021, and she has kept a “small sealed urn” with her ashes on a shelf in her room ever since.

“It’s not flashy or on display,” she wrote. “It just brings me comfort.”

The other day, however, she noticed the urn was missing and “tore” her room apart trying to find it. She was panicking so much that she started to feel ill.

When she asked her roommates to help her look, one agreed, but “S” rolled her eyes and said, “Maybe this is the universe telling you to stop living in the past.”

It “hit [her] instantly,” and she asked “S” directly if she had taken the urn, to which she just “shrugged” and said she was “tired of my shrine vibes” and that “grief shouldn’t be decor.” 

“She refused to give it back until I ‘learned to let go.’ I lost it. Threatened police,” the woman wrote. “She finally cracked and retrieved it from her car trunk, where it had been rolling around in a grocery tote bag.”

The woman was shaking so hard that her other roommate had to take the urn from her so she wouldn’t drop it. The poster told “S” that her actions were “unforgivable.”

However, now the roommate who took the urn is telling people that the woman “overreacted.”

The woman wants to find a new place to live, but asked the Reddit community if she should file a report.

“I’ve never felt so violated,” she ended her post. 

People in the comments encouraged the woman to gather evidence and file a report against her roommate. 

“That’s beyond unhinged, like genuinely disturbing behavior. Definitely file that report because anyone willing to steal someone’s literal deceased family member has zero boundaries and will absolutely escalate,” one person commented. 

“Once someone’s willing to mess with something that sacred and deeply personal, all bets are off. That’s not just disrespectful, it’s dangerous. Anyone that cold has no business sharing space with others. Total lack of boundaries and empathy,” another person wrote.