::Typically bones don’t burn to ash.::
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Uh, cremation....?
MarQ
Cremation leaves the bones in most cases.
This is why you never pass food directly from chopstick to chopstick in Japan, because following cremation it was traditional for the family to use funerary chopsticks to pass the bones from person to person then into the funerary box.
While previously in history it was all the bone; it became a symbolic gesture with something small like a finger bone, with the remainder taken care of by the crematory.
In the US I believe that the bones are processed (crushed, grinding or something called a cremulator) to fit them into the urn. My son’s urn, he didn’t make it to term, I could fit into the palm of my hand.
> cremation?
They throw the bones away from what I’ve been told. Some do burn but not big ones.
-SB
They still have to grind the larger pieces 😱😱
::Typically bones don’t burn to ash.::
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Uh, cremation....?
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I’ve heard they need to grind them so they’ll fit in an urn.