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| Thread ID: 102708 | 2009-08-29 23:16:00 | Cremation - ashes etc | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 805201 | 2009-08-29 23:16:00 | Hi Guys, Sorry to be a bit depressing, but my father just died and was cremated the other day, after a short illness. My mother (and I) want to know what happens to the casket - we paid for a wooden one - and my fathers ashes ? Eg surely if the casket is burned (as it is supposed to be) then there would be a lot of ashes. (far more than a small urn ?) So what are the ashes we will get ? What percentage of those will be wood and what will be of my father ? I checked out Wikepedia and they did not cover this in detail. Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 805202 | 2009-08-29 23:23:00 | My condolences, Digby. :( I do not know the exact details, but when my grandmother's remains were dug up (her grave was being unmaintained by the people we paid to maintain) to be cremated, it was only her remains that got cremated. No casket or any container. It wasn't in NZ as she isn't in NZ, though, so I don't know what happens here. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 805203 | 2009-08-29 23:30:00 | www.google.co.nz :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 805204 | 2009-08-29 23:32:00 | Sorry to hear that. Here is a link that may help. www.funeralsnewzealand.co.nz |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 805205 | 2009-08-29 23:35:00 | Or you could try weighing the casket and gain a percentage from that.....say, if the casket is 10kg and your father is 80kg, that means 11.1% of the ashes would be the casket. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 805206 | 2009-08-30 00:56:00 | Or you could try weighing the casket and gain a percentage from that.....say, if the casket is 10kg and your father is 80kg, that means 11.1% of the ashes would be the casket. It doesn't work that way. Wood and bone are entirely different. Most of the wood ash is consumed by the intense heat and is turned to CO2, so if one is bothered by this question, rest assured that most of the ash will in fact be the residual remains of the body. Cremation ashes are surprisingly heavy. We had a large Labrador cremated last year, and the ashes we received weighed , from memory, nearly the same as my Dads. There may not be the same controls though over animal cremation as human cremation. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 805207 | 2009-08-30 00:58:00 | It doesn't work that way. Wood and bone are entirely different. Most of the wood ash is consumed by the intense heat and is turned to CO2, so if one is bothered by this question, rest assured that most of the ash will in fact be the residual remains of the body. Ah....didn't think of it that way. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 805208 | 2009-08-30 02:01:00 | It doesn't work that way. Wood and bone are entirely different. Most of the wood ash is consumed by the intense heat and is turned to CO2, so if one is bothered by this question, rest assured that most of the ash will in fact be the residual remains of the body. Cremation ashes are surprisingly heavy. We had a large Labrador cremated last year, and the ashes we received weighed , from memory, nearly the same as my Dads. There may not be the same controls though over animal cremation as human cremation. And that Ter is where we end up and not that far away,now isn't that morbid.! |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 805209 | 2009-08-30 02:14:00 | And that Ter is where we end up and not that far away,now isn't that morbid.! Not long to go now Cic, who will get there first ? :clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 805210 | 2009-08-30 02:17:00 | I don't see anyone jumping up and down and saying, "Me first!!" Myself included for that matter. :-) |
Sweep (90) | ||
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