A 26-year-old widow adopted a shocking way of mourning her dead husband when she became addicted to eating his cremated ashes as a form of comfort, according to the Huffington Post.

Casie, was devastated when she lost her husband Shawn to a sudden asthma attack after two and a half years of marriage.

At first, she carried around her husband’s cremated ashes wherever she went including the grocery store and movie theaters, the Daily Mail reported.

Her mourning became more extreme when she spilled some of the ashes onto her hand one day.

“I didn’t want to wipe them off because that’s my husband and I don’t want to wipe him away. So I just licked it off my finger,” said Casie.

Since then, she could not stop eating the ashes which tastes like “rotten eggs, sand and sandpaper,” and has consumed at least a pound of his ashes so far.

Appearing on the season finale of the TLC series ‘My Strange Addiction,’ many people found Casie’s addiction shocking.

However, in the end, she checked herself into an inpatient care facility to stop the strange grieving process and to protect herself from dangerous chemicals in the ashes which induce psychosis when digested, reported Jezelbel.com.

By Jung Eun-jung
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Intern reporter