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.
Thank you for the information.
Prayers for you for your loss. ~~hugs~~
Ah, okay, the bones are processed. That makes sense.
-SB