Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium

Re:Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium by LgWoodenBadger on Friday March 02, 2018 @01:41PM (#16504440)

My family used to be in the funeral business, and as a kid I've gone on rides to pick up bodies in Hearses, dug and filled graves, and visited a crematorium.

My aunt was friends with the crematorium operator, and we got to visit one in operation. The operator was retelling the story about the big stain on the concrete floor near the furnace.

TLDR: There is a "formula" using body mass to determine whether they go in head- or feet-first. If you get it wrong, the fat sometimes liquefies and runs out onto the floor.

Whether this is true or whether he was just f'ing with a young kid, I don't know.

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Re:Burning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium by SpikeDad on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:02AM (#16509825)

I just saw the construction of a crematorium on "How It's Made". Very interesting - this one had two chambers. The primary chamber for the body and then a secondary one connected with a sloping tunnel which was designed to incinerate any fluidic remains.

Perhaps this is a modern construction. It seems very logical that fluids would render from a body and need to be re-burned so this crematory accounted for that.

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