08-28-2007, 12:35 PM
Taggart Wrote:I forget who told me this, and it may be just one of those stories but I heard that when someone's cremated it's more difficult if the person drank a lot of diet soft drinks.
Apparently the bones don't burn very well in that case. I know, it sounds like a Stephen King setup. :eek:
OK, that is a lie. According to the regulations for cremation, the body has to be in the crematory for 2 hours, which is the time where all the "meat" gets burned. The bones, do not get burned then, at least most of them do not get burned, only the very small ones. Then, they take the tray where the bones and ashes are left, put them underneath a magnet to take out any kind of metal that might me there, and then put the bones through some kind of giant blender. And those are the ashes that the family collects after cremation. I saw it on a documentary here in Germany... so, the diet soda might kill you, but do you really care after you are dead??