Eddie51, Your statistics on cremation are nonsense. The average time in the cremator is 2.0 to 2.5 hours, after which the remains are raked down into the bottom chamber where they cool off before being put in a cremulator to reduce them into the cremated remains. Each cremation is carried indvidually (two coffins won't fit in a cremator). The highest number of cremations for one crematorium in the year 2014 is 3,055(Eltham), so your figure of 396 per week means that in in only 10 weeks 3,960 would be carried out. They do not work round the clock!