Bones...............?

Question

I have heard that bones do not burn or take absolutely ages to burn...so when someone is cremated, what happens to the bones?

Answer 1

The denser bones will burn down to small particles, like pebbles, but anything can be turned to ash if the fire is hot enough. Sometimes they are put through a machine to grind them finer like sand.

Answer 2

The minerals in bones don't burn, but the collagen does. It just takes a while and a lot of heat.

The bits that don't crumble under their own weight are ground up so they don't stick out of the rest of the ashes.

Answer 3

Hi south..Our bones are not fully incinerated in the furnace. After the event takes place, the remains are placed in a crusher where everything is ground up. Then they are placed into a urn or other receptacle.

Answer 4

the bones are removed from the ashes and put into a grinder - the dust from the ground up bones is then thrown into the ashes too - why do i know? my dads an EHO (enviromental health officer) and has inspected a few cremetoruims in his time.

Answer 5

It is wrong, bones burn with a very high temperature!

Answer 6

bones will burn. It just takes VERY high heat over a good period of time

Answer 7

yes ti will burn at high heat. I just want to go natually and not in a hard wooden box, your body takes forever to decompose. I prefer to be plaaced in a bag, in the ground and give back to the earth what it gave me.

Answer 8

It is a seriously hat temperature for hours so it just disintegrate the bones

Answer 9

I dont know that one, I guess they burn. But a little intersesting fact is pigs can digest them...

Answer 10

They grind them up in a mincer thingy.