Can cremation really burn people to ashes?

Can crematoriums really burn bodies to ashes? In fact, many people have been cheated. After reading this article, you will suddenly realize!

Everyone has to go through birth, illness and death, which is a natural law, but I heard some old people say that they don't want to be cremated after death because they are afraid of pain, which is unscientific. How can it hurt if you are unconscious after death? Therefore, people who live in the world should not worry too much. After death, you won't feel everything, and eventually you will fall into endless nothingness. It is impossible to feel pain. Besides, after our rural elderly died, they were sent to cremation every other day. In the past, they had to be buried at home for three days.

Everything in the world lives and dies. Scientists estimate that the sun will be "dead" after 5 billion years, not to mention a negligible individual. Crematorium is the last stop of everyone's life, and everyone should face it calmly, but some people can't help but ask, can cremation really burn the remains to ashes? If not, what shape is it?

Many people think that cremation is carried out with a kind of furnace. In fact, cremators are still different, mainly including the following types: grate cremators, ash-picking cremators and flat-plate cremators. But now diesel is mostly used as an auxiliary fuel, which is the so-called oil cremator.

The crematorium has a complete set of operating systems, such as main combustion chamber, afterburning chamber, exhaust system, air supply system, electric control system, combustion system, supporting "white car" to transport corpses, cooling and ash removal system, etc.

This is also a question that the outside world has been curious about. Most people think that the staff inside must be well paid. After all, not many people want to deal with the dead for a long time.

In fact, the treatment of crematorium staff is definitely better than that of the general industry. The income of regular employees is basically above average. According to the economic level of different places, the wages of employees are different, ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, which are not uniform and basically not too low.

The average welfare salary of crematorium employees is also 10 thousand, and the salary of body beautician will be higher. Most of them can earn more than 20 thousand a month, but few dare to do it, so they deserve it.

The sales staff of the urn and the staff in front of the furnace will be paid according to the benefits, and the cleaning aunt will be a little lower, but she can also get about 3000 yuan.

The cremation department of the crematorium usually goes to work at 8 o'clock and must be dressed neatly, with all kinds of work clothes, masks and gloves available. If a corpse is sent for cremation, you must check the information of the corpse with your family before cremation.

It takes about 45 minutes to complete cremation, but I have read reports that some bodies weighing 300 kg or 400 kg will take longer to be cremated, and then they will start to dry, pick up and box.

If it is a small county with a small population and a small workload, you can finish it in one morning and get off work early in the afternoon. If the population is large and the workload is heavy, you need to work overtime until it is finished.

Cremation work will not be too tiring, because it is all mechanized operation, oil injection and combustion, and workers can control the switch. It's not too complicated, but they will be too hot to wear overalls in summer. They need to have good psychological quality and be able to undertake the heavy responsibility of turning the human body into ashes.

Having said that, people can't help asking, can the body really be reduced to ashes?

For so many years, everyone has been cheated by film and television dramas. Father attended grandma's cremation ceremony, and then he needed his family to pack the boxes. When he saw his old mother, he was heartbroken and shed tears.

He told me that, unlike what I saw on TV, it turned into powdery ashes, and there were some foam fragments and bones. It's sad to see that the closest person was burned like this. Sadness is beyond words.

After such a long period of high-temperature combustion, bones have become "brittle" and will break when hit by heavy objects. Another father, watching his drowned son be cremated from the stove, fainted directly, which was unacceptable. After all, he was burned to a pile of bones when he was 13 years old.

During cremation, the temperature in the furnace gradually rises from 200 degrees Celsius to about 900 degrees Celsius. Burn your hair first, then your clothes, then your skin. A large area of muscles began to shrink, slowly leaving only bones, which is also the most difficult to burn.

Even in such a high temperature environment, bones are basically not burned to ashes. These bones are mostly white or light gray in the end, and may be other colors.

Film and television dramas are basically burned to ashes, which is not the case, but most people don't want to think about it. After all, death is heavy. Cherish every day in front of you and don't leave too many regrets before you die!

Uncle, a fireman in the county crematorium, has more than ten years' working experience and told me many unacceptable things: when burning a corpse, cut open the belly of the corpse with a sharp blade. No matter what sound you hear, don't pay attention to it even if you see the corpse sitting up, just keep heating up, smash the bones and give them to your family in an urn, even if the cremation is over today.

After listening to my uncle's story, the hairs on my back stood on end. Everyone's association makes me feel that the people inside are definitely not completely dead.

When watching movies and TV series, you will find that when people push into the cremator, the ashes will be put into the urn like flour, so many people think that the cremator can burn people to ashes.

Answer: Of course not.

Generally, the cremation furnace starts to heat up from 200 degrees, up to 900 degrees, and the temperature is different at each stage.

When the temperature is about 400 degrees to 500 degrees, it is mainly for burning clothes and hair on the surface of the corpse.

600 to 700 degrees, mainly burning the body, muscles, blood and organs, has been adjusted to 900 degrees, burning human bones.

This is the temperature change of the cremator.

(1), ash picking and cremation machine.

② Flat cremation machine.

(3), grate cremation machine.

Basically, diesel oil is one of the auxiliary materials used as cremation fuel.

Tiny bones, such as finger bones and toe bones, will not turn into ashes after being baked at a high temperature of more than 900 degrees, but will only burn into pieces. Very hard bones such as skull, femur and pelvis will not burn to ashes at all.

So don't be fooled by the movie. The highest temperature in the cremator can reach 1000 degrees, and the high temperature of 1000 degrees can't burn the human femoral head and pelvis into ashes.

Since it can't be burned to ashes, it means it is still a complete skeleton. Why can you put it in such a small urn?

After all the formalities are completed and the cremation agreement is signed, the body is placed on the iron bed and then pushed into the cremation furnace, just like the traditional old-fashioned cremation furnace.

At first, the temperature rose to 200 degrees, and the hair and clothes on the body began to shrink gradually, emitting thick burning black smoke. About ten minutes later, a lot of oil stains appeared on body fat under high temperature baking, just like we usually smelt lard in an iron pot. Under the high temperature baking, all the oil in it is trained, and the remaining lard is very dry.

Then the oil burned from the fat began to burn with the temperature, and the abdomen of the corpse was like an inflatable balloon.

It expands more and more, and then sends out a series of unacceptable weird things.

In fact, these things are physical principles, which are made up of; Thermal expansion and cold contraction.

Two days after his death, the muscles and soft tissues of various organs of the body were not completely stiff, but had certain elasticity and moisture.

When the temperature in the cremator rises gradually, these muscles and soft tissues quickly evaporate water and contract. At this time, you can see that the limbs of the corpse began to twitch, and some corpses reacted greatly and did it directly.

That's why it gives people the illusion that the people inside are not dead.

As for hearing the cry for help in the cremator outside, it is actually an illusion.

Heat expands and cold contracts, causing the abdomen of the corpse to expand rapidly. There is more and more gas in it, which will be discharged along the perforated places such as mouth, ears and nostrils. When gas is discharged from the throat to the mouth, it will make a sound similar to calling for help, giving people an illusion of being alive.

Generally, like those traditional crematoriums, an iron bamboo pole several meters long will be used at this time to poke a hole in the belly of the corpse with a pointed end, that is, the gas inside will be exhausted to prevent the belly from getting bigger and bigger and the whale from exploding.

Once an explosion happens, organs are hard to take care of everywhere.

It takes about one hour to burn a body of 160 kg in a traditional crematorium. In the meantime, the shovel taken by the chemical industry needs to be turned over constantly to make the body burn fully, but now it is fully automatic and does not need to be turned over at all.

Within an hour, thin bones such as finger bones and toe bones of the corpse will burn into pieces due to high temperature.

Other hard bones, such as the femur, will be burned like complete bones, so it is impossible to burn these bones to ashes as everyone says.

It burns in almost an hour. At this time, the chemical industry will use iron hooks. At that time, the traditional cremation furnace was not automatic, and the iron bed inside was hooked out. What is printed out is a complete bone, which weighs at least tens of kilograms. Usually, the cremation union hammers these bones down bit by bit with a hammer and then puts them into the urn.

So what everyone sees in TV series is secondary processing.

In other words, the skeleton of the charred corpse is still a complete skeleton, which needs to be smashed by the fire chemical industry with a hammer and put into the urn, which is often called ashes.

Dozens of pounds of bones, but only five or six pounds of ashes, because in the process of burning, many tiny bones became the end of the year, and under the condition of high temperature, they were blown everywhere in the gap in the cremation furnace, and there were many piles of ashes, so there were only a few pounds of ashes.

These ashes are actually bone fragments, not powdered ashes. These bone fragments are basically fire chemicals, hammered out with a hammer.

Therefore, everyone must believe in scientific truth, and don't believe those unfounded rumors, such as the people in the cremator haven't touched the dead body yet.

Because every corpse needs to see a death certificate when it is cremated, and the death certificate is a death certificate issued by the hospital. Before the death certificate is issued, it will be issued after 24-hour medical observation confirms that 100% is dead.

As everyone said, the situation is basically a small probability.

Because the traditional burial makes many experts feel that it is an extreme waste of land, resulting in a lot of land loss. Many farmers used to have an acre of land to cultivate. If there is a grave buried on the land, the cultivated area will be reduced, resulting in land loss. So the country advocates cremation.

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Not exactly.

After the remains are burned at high temperature in the furnace, the soft tissue parts such as muscles become flaky with different sizes, and most of the bones are still the prototype of bones!

What about the so-called ashes? This is due to chemical operation. After the high-temperature incineration, the cremation union has been pulling with hooks, which can speed up the incineration, but the bones are still intact. After taking it out, the crematorium gave a large dustpan, and the family of the deceased smashed it with a hammer and other hard objects. It will take some time. I have been to the cremator several times.

A family in my hometown group once gave several packs of cigarettes to the petrochemical industry and told them not to pull the hook. As a result, the body came out as if it had been buried in the soil for several years, and the bones were intact. The coffins he carries are arranged directly according to the appearance of people!

People will die after a hundred years, no matter what, it is for future generations to see!

I witnessed my husband's cousin being cremated and burned to ashes after his death. Now I'll tell you this process, so that you can have a certain understanding of cremation.

The cremated bodies in the crematorium did not turn into a pile of white ashes as described in the movie. What really turns to ashes is the clothes, muscles, internal organs and all soft tissues of the deceased. The furnace box of the crematorium is the kind of neatly arranged bones when the body discovered in one thousand, but the bones are all burnt brittle, which is a miniature version of the arrangement of human bones, like the chest ribs being burned to ashes.

Tell me about the procedure of cremation in a crematorium after death:

After the deceased was sent to the crematorium, the beautician in the crematorium gave the deceased beauty, making the deceased look less ferocious.

The facial expression after death is terrible, not as calm as sleeping in movies and TV. No, people have to go through a painful struggle before they die Their eyes are half open, their mouths are open to the limit, their lips are torn behind their ears, and all their teeth are protruding forward ... I don't want to describe them. It looks terrible.

The beautician at the crematorium tried his best to powder the face of the deceased and painted his cheeks and lips reddish to make him look alive. His eyes were closed by the makeup artist, his mouth was closed by the makeup artist, and his clothes were neatly dressed. The whole body looks like it is asleep.

All relatives, friends and leading colleagues of my cousin's unit held a farewell ceremony (that is, a memorial service) just before my cousin was cremated.

After my cousin's farewell ceremony, the leaders, colleagues and friends of his unit left the crematorium one after another, and only a few close relatives stayed in the crematorium waiting for the remains to be cremated.

My husband and I, as relatives of my cousin, accompanied the crematorium staff to escort my cousin into the crematorium and witnessed the whole process of cremation of my cousin's body (and the crematorium staff invited relatives to accompany and supervise).

Now it's all modern electric cremation operation, computer control and fuel injection combustion.

My cousin was pushed into the crematorium by the crematorium staff. The cremator mouth is made of glass, and people outside (two staff members and my wife) can see it clearly.

At first, I saw the oil pipe in the smelting furnace spraying oil on the body, and then lit it, and the raging fire burned immediately. I heard the sizzling of clothes and muscles. After burning for 20 minutes, the clothes, muscles and internal organs were all burned out, leaving only a skeleton. Crematorium staff pressed the switch to spray oil on the bones again, and the raging fire ignited again. After burning for about 20 minutes, the oil was burned out. Workers continue to operate fuel injection and combustion.

It took my cousin 55 minutes to push the smelting furnace into the furnace. At this point, the cousin who launched the smelting furnace has turned into "brittle bones" and ashes.

My cousin's bones almost melted from head to toe, only the skull, the joint bones on the back of both hands and the joint bones on both legs are still there, the sternum has all melted into white ash, and all the clothes have been burned into black ash. Generally speaking, after the body is burned to ashes, there will be a few bones and skulls left.

The skull is about the size of a skull, only a few bones the size of a tender lotus root.

The staff asked, do you want ashes?

We said, let's see how much the urn can hold.

In fact, if all the ashes are put away, there are almost half a laundry list, and the urn can't hold it, only one-third of the ashes can be held.

I saw that the staff put a piece of Bhutto into the urn, took it down from the leg bone with a hammer, gently smashed the leg bone with the hammer, put it under the cloth of the urn, then shoveled the bone burned by the sternum, smashed the joint bones of both hands, and finally dug out the skull and put the skull with a big head into the urn. The crumbs here are not broken into ashes, but into coarse particles larger than bread crumbs. After the skull was broken, the urn was almost full. The staff closed the gray cloth, covered the lid of the urn, and then handed us the urn.

The whole cremation procedure is completed.

Cremation can indeed burn most tissues of the human body into ashes, but the slightly thicker bones of the human body can only be burned into the shape of "crisp white charcoal". Most of the ashes put into the urn are these "crisp white charcoal" that have not been burned into powder, and then the skull will be burned into "crisp white charcoal" and the bones of the limbs will be knocked into coarse powder.

Cremation can burn people to ashes, and the body will turn into smoke during the burning process and return to nature. The last thing left is bone residue. The staff crushed it with a big iron weight like a stone lock and put it in a cloth bag to give it to their families. Even if this body is completely ruined.

In the 1970s, the production team organized members to dig mud in the river near the city. We often work in the river near the crematorium. At that time, I was young and strong, and a boat full of mud had already been filled. When waiting for others, I will go ashore to the crematorium to watch cremation.

At that time, the body was cremated or burned with coal. In order to facilitate the burning, the staff opened the oven door every once in a while and pulled the body with a big iron hook. There is still a little cinder in the ashes. The staff will help you pick up cinders when they are in a good mood. When it's not good, they even give it to their families as ashes.

Now that science and technology have advanced, coal-burning stoves have long been eliminated and replaced by electricity and oil. Those that burn electricity are called high-grade furnaces, and those that burn oil are called ordinary furnaces. High-grade ones are much more expensive than ordinary ones, but the ashes burned are definitely different.

My cousin passed away this year, and his children asked him for a high-grade stove to thank him for his hard work all his life. As can be seen from the display screen, during the one-hour cremation, the hook did not move, and when the ashes came out, the skeleton of the skull and limbs was almost completed. But it was crushed by the staff, because it can't be bagged or put into the urn without crushing.

The old man worked hard all his life. When the remains are cremated, the sons and daughters should give the old man a high-grade stove to go on the road, and let him pay attention to the westbound road, so as to send our grief!

Yes, one of my younger brothers was sent to the crematorium after his death. After cremation, the cremator sent us ashes, only to see a small pile of broken bones, which were calcified after burning. The larger one is broken with a hammer and put into an urn.

After my cousin died, out of curiosity, I watched the whole process of burning him and collecting ashes behind the crematorium. After burning, the workers behind the stove will take a long steel rake and dig the burned bones into the big iron plate below, which is a bit like baking bread. Not all burnt bones are gray, but white or gray bone fragments. It is strange that some of the thinnest skulls are still there. Then the workers use ordinary shovels to grind the bones into powder or crush large pieces of bones. Generally speaking, the skull will stay and will not be crushed. Then put the ashes into an urn with a red cloth cushion, and then put a large piece of relatively complete skull on it.

Cremation has been going on for decades, and it has basically burned to ashes. The capacity of a person's ashes is also defined as the maximum capacity of a zygote, no more, no less!

My brother-in-law, who just joined the crematorium in the city, peed his pants in the process of burning the body again.

Finally, an old chemical worker who has worked for more than ten years warned him: even if he heard the sound of a corpse and saw it sitting up with his own eyes, don't pay attention. Just add the temperature Our task is just to break the bones with a hammer, put them in the urn and give them to your family, and then you can finish the work.

When I heard that, my back was cold and I was sweating all over. I always feel that the body in the cremator is screaming. Does that mean the people inside are not dead?

After listening to my brother-in-law telling me about his working environment and things, I suddenly realized.

Answer: Some organs and tissues can be burned to ashes, but most of them will remain in the state of bones.

In order to better understand the cremation entity and the process of burning the body, can it be burned to ashes? Next, I will give you a detailed introduction to the process of burning the body.

The temperature in the traditional old cremation furnace gradually increased from the initial 200 degrees to 900 degrees.

And some cremators, the highest temperature inside can reach 1000 reading.

At the high temperature of 1000 degrees, an old fat pig weighing more than 300 kilograms was put in. In less than half an hour, only a pile of bone residue was left, and the flesh and blood had already turned to ashes.

When a person dies, the hospital will issue a death certificate and send it to the funeral home for a final farewell.

At first, the cremation union turned on the temperature of the cremator, put the body on the iron bed, pushed the cremator, closed the door and began to burn the body slowly.

Ten minutes before the corpse burned, the hair of the corpse began to burn out, and the fat in the human body was constantly risking oil because of the high temperature, just like roasting pork belly. The oil spilled out and immediately burned.

The abdomen of the corpse is like an inflated balloon.

Because of the principle of heat expansion and cold contraction, a large amount of gas is produced in the stomach, which makes the stomach roll like a balloon. Like those backward crematoriums at this time, it is necessary to cut the belly of the body with a blade to avoid explosion.

Because of the principle that heat expands and contracts, there are more and more gases in the stomach. When squeezed, these gases will be discharged along the perforated places such as mouth, ears and anus, so they will make a sound, mixed with the burning and scraping sound of body fat, giving many people the illusion that the people inside are not dead.

So everyone here must believe in science, not rumors.

People who have died for two days are not completely stiff in the muscles and soft tissues of their limbs. When they are pushed into the cremator and encounter high temperatures of several hundred degrees, these soft tissues and muscles will contract rapidly, thus creating the illusion that the limbs of the corpse will move.

In about 30 minutes, the temperature inside has reached 1000 degrees. At this point, the flesh on the surface of the body has begun to burn less and less, just like barbecue. As the temperature rises, it will be roasted continuously, so the meat will become darker and darker until it is roasted to ashes.

In about 40 minutes, the flesh and blood of the body has been completely burned, and some ashes have been burned. Because the chimney is discharged into the air, all the burnt resin oil burns and sticks to the iron bed.

Small bones such as finger bones and toe bones will burn to ashes due to rising temperature, while thicker bones such as skull, thigh bone, calf bone and pelvic bone will not burn to ashes.

Reason: Now it's all about what it's like to push an automatic cremator to push out a complete skeleton.

These complete skeletons weigh at least dozens of pounds, which is not enough for a small urn.

That's because these burned skeletons will be broken by a hammer, and then put into an urn and handed over to the families of the deceased or let the families of the deceased collect the ashes themselves.

So don't watch those movies. Tv dramas always think that people are pushed out of cremators and turned into powder like flour, but they are not.

Like bones with smaller ribs, because they are very brittle at high temperature, they have become statues of bone residue, and the femoral head and pelvis are still intact bones. At this time, they need to be processed twice and put into the urn after being broken.

To tell the truth, scenes like this are generally crematoriums, which are handled by staff, because many people are reluctant to let their relatives turn into bones and then break them themselves.

Strip cremators, ash-picking cremators and flat cremators, but now most of them use diesel as auxiliary fuel, which is called oil-fired cremators.

Like those traditional and backward crematoriums, they are basically semi-automatic and need manual operation. For example, the temperature is not so high, the cremator equipment is backward, and the corpse must be carried manually in the middle of burning, so that the corpse can be fully burned.

The existing cremators are fully automatic, and there is a small room dedicated to burning corpses. No matter the main combustion chamber, secondary combustion chamber, exhaust system, air supply system, electric control system, combustion system and cooling ash removal system of the exhaust system, they are all 100 times stronger than the traditional cremator, and the corpse burns very quickly.

Therefore, when cremating a corpse, people can't be burned to ashes, so movies and TV dramas are all fictional.

The normal operation is that the thinner bones will burn into slag, and the larger bones such as femur and skull are basically intact.

Because it's in an urn, it needs to be cooled when it's burned. The so-called treatment is to break it with a hammer.

So it is very unacceptable to cremate the body. When cremating a corpse, family members are generally not allowed to watch.

Because no one can accept that their loved ones are burned to death in the fire, which is unacceptable and cruel to them.

Firefighters working in funeral homes also have a very strong psychological quality, because there are many backward crematoriums. When burning the body, they need to turn it over manually with a shovel. It's just the shock of the picture and the smell of barbecue that makes people's stomach churn. The smell is so attached that you can't eat for days.

Cremation is a way of funeral advocated by the state in recent years. Because experts believe that traditional burial wastes land and easily pollutes the environment, cremation is promoted.

Do you think this cremation method is reasonable?

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It has been more than twenty years since the death of an old member of our family. I have experienced the death of two relatives since I was a child, both of whom were sent to funeral home cremation, and the ashes were transported back to my hometown for burial.

When it comes to ashes, all we remember are the fine sand-like or vegetation-like ashes seen in TV dramas or movies. In the real world, it is actually different. In funeral home cremation, after the death of our loved ones, we put on the shroud and shoes. Make an appointment at the funeral home, and someone will follow the family of the car. When they arrive at the funeral home, they will first carry the body to the memorial hall for a final visit. Then they will be taken away and cremated.

In fact, it only takes one hour to cremate the remains. All you need is a relative waiting for someone to call you at the ashes exit. What finally came out was really a small pile of broken bones, freshly baked, white and a little hot. Rich people will use urns, and poor people will use small cartons with notices!