Cremation

[fruitsalad]

I have heard some disturbing, (not sure if it gossip or true) news about when a body is cremated the ashes could be mixed with the rest of the cremations of that day, "I was told, " you dont really think that the ashes are removed, and the furnace lit after every cremation" and it got me thinking how it does actually work after each, cremation takes place one after the other, on a daily basis.

[Jordyboy9]

Doesn’t matter to me when I am gone where my ashes are

[andres]

Jordy----But it might matter to your wife. She might not want someone else's ashes .

[Mamyalynne]

Urban myth.

https://www.urnsforashes.co.uk/cremation-process/

[Theland]

Grandad was cremated and his ashes sent home in a jar left on the shelf in the living room.
People started using it as an ash tray.
When his old mate visited after a few months, he exclaimed, " my word he's putting on weight!"

[Buenchico]

This is from a US site but it gives a decent summary of how things work:
https://www.funeralwise.com/plan/cremation/cremation-process/

This video might also help:

[Jordyboy9]

Andres we have discussed this and we are going for a Direct Cremation

[Theland]

How joyous Chico!

[Mamyalynne]

UK Video in my link too.

[Peter Pedant]

// you dont really think that the ashes are removed, and the furnace lit after every cremation//
that cannot possibly be from the cremation place

someone tiring of - "and the doctors said they had never seen anything like it" and wanted to try something else to shock the listener

Yes common story
yes they do - restart each time....

[another:
when a neighbour died the police waited outside the house for the undertaker to come ( yes I assure you he really is dead) and
THAT was to prevent body substitution

one out of a freezer and one in - hold it you still have a body in the freezer and defrosting is very obvious pathologically. Yeah but it is a different body. So...?

never got the bottom of that one...]

[ladybirder]

It's jut dawned on me that you get back the ashes of the coffin and the body mixed together then? Am I right? Never thought about it before.

[hc4361]

That's right, ladybirder.

[hc4361]

The ashes also include the ground bones.

[nailit]

Had an uncle that worked for an undertaker for a while. Assured us all that what goes in, you get back. Nothing more, nothing less.

[nailit]

Very tightly regulated apparently.

[ladybirder]

Thanks HC. Ridiculous that I had never thought of that.

[nailit]

Always curious on threads like these,
Why does anyone care anyway?
When Im dead I wont know it. My surviving relatives could be given a bucket of fag ash and wouldn't know it.
So why care. The deceased is dead anyway?

[ladybirder]

I don't care about me Nailit. I asked because I keep a box containing what I thought were my son's ashes and didn't realise I had his coffin as well. Makes no difference I suppose, it is what it is.