'I'll eat my mum for Christmas lunch'

Ever since her mother Doreen died in May, Debra Parsons has felt the uncontrollable urge to snack on her remains.

Most days, she said, Debra limits herself to a small spoonful of her mother's ashes.

But in order to get through Christmas Day, she plans to have a larger portion.

"It is the only thing that will get me through my first Christmas without mum,” Debra told the Mirror.

“I feel like she can live on by being inside of me because if she is part of me she can breathe through my body. My breath is her breath.

“It will be my first Christmas without her and I want her to be involved and this is the only way that feels right to me.”

Doreen's passing was the last straw for Debra, who had been suffering emotionally ever since she lost her baby son, born prematurely in 1996.

After Doreen died suddenly of an airway obstruction as a complication from a chest infection, Debra found herself increasingly battling the desire to eat her mother's ashes.

“I have been having a ­little taste most days – sometimes on my ­finger or on a little spoon," Debra said.

“But I don’t want to just eat the ashes on my fingers – I’d like my mum to be a part of the celebration this year so I will have her with my Christmas dinner."

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