Box Clever

[Birchy]

Genuine answers only pleeeez....... at a cremation, does the coffin get burned too? It seems a terrible waste of good timber that could be put to much better use on, say, House Invaders.....

[Quizmonster]

Yes. Click http://www.bathnes.gov.uk/directservices/cemcrem/c
remfaqprocess.asp for confirmation.

[bluedolphin]

I thought they used special coffins of compressed cardboard as an option.

[sft42]

You pays for it so it gets burned....they only remove the brass fittings if there are any.

[RCP]

Please do not read on if you do not want to know too much about cremation.My mother used to manage a crematorium so I had a look behind the scenes. The coffins for burning are generally chipboard with a thin veneer & plastic handles to save money. As we were walking through my mother switched on a spherical machine slightly smaller than a football, whcih turned out to be a 'bone grinder' as everything does not automatically burn down to the fine ash you receive in the urn. There were several urns around the floor & being fairly clumsy I had to be fairly careful not to kick them over. And I can confirm that Princess Di was not secretly cremated as I read somewhere once.

[RCP]

norman - you do indeed, everything is very carefully labelled, although I don't know how often the trays that catch the ashes are cleaned thoroughly. I'll ask later cos I'm curious now.

[sft42]

Yeah the bone crusher thing goes under the delightful name of a cremulator if i remember rightly.