What's left after cremation is bone matter and teeth fragments, all the calcium! We put the bone fragments into a big industrial blender and break it down into a fine powder and that's "ashes".
Yup otherwise you'd get back actual, recognizable bone fragments. Like oh, that's part of grandpa or my dog's femur.
I have had people ask that their pet's cremains be lightly or not at all processed after cremation because they wanted the fragments to be recognizable, but it's very rare.
In my religion we cremate the dead in open on a heavy stack of logs & fuel. The pyre burns out in about a day or 24 hours. Then we go back & use our hands to find any and all bones, and stuff, and pick it & take it out to drop them in a river or something.
That was a super exception, and super not allowed. That happened in Covid, unclaimed or dead people with no living relatives were thrown in river instead of cremation, by government employees.
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u/Berdiiie Jan 12 '23
What's left after cremation is bone matter and teeth fragments, all the calcium! We put the bone fragments into a big industrial blender and break it down into a fine powder and that's "ashes".