How is cremation actually performed?
The deceased’s body is typically enclosed in a rigid cremation container or special casket (a casket is not required, but is available through one of the MasterTouch Packages here). Not all states require such a container or casket, which is typically constructed of wood or cardboard, used throughout the transportation and handling of the deceased’s body, and itself cremated. By law, only one body at a time may be cremated in a cremation chamber. Additionally, most cremation chambers are designed to accommodate no more than one deceased adult. • Once the body enters the chamber a combination of heat, flame, and evaporation will reduce it over a period of two to three hours (at between 1,500 to 2,000 degrees F) to its most basic elements, which resemble coarse, whitish or light gray sand. While the cremation service typically refers to ash scatterings, actual human remains bear little resemblance and no chemical similarities with ashes. They are, instead, bone fragments and the remains
