Urn for the autonomous discharge from the urn of powdery mortal remains such as ashes. The urn comprises a housing comprising a chamber for ashes, a discharge opening for the ashes, as well as a device for the batchwise discharge of the powdery remains. For reliably discharging powdery mortal remains the device comprises- a transport organ for conveying powdery mortal remains towards the discharge opening, and- a blade provided outside the housing, which blade is movable by the action of the windwherein the urn is arranged for converting wind energy into a movement of the transport organ by means of the movable blade.
