Cremated remains.

aujopimur

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

ejmaztec

aujopimur wrote: »

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

You shouldn't play with matches.:(

healyboi

20kg

retalivity

about 3 fiddy

Fratton Fred

aujopimur wrote: »

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

What, you are going to give all your friends your ashes?

Eat McDonald's five times a day, there'll be plenty.

BUBBLE WRAP

This is why we cant have nice things...

Rabies

retalivity wrote: »

about 3 fiddy

Imaginary thanks going your way for the originality of that post.



OP, here is an idea of what is left over
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/07/im_burning_up.html

super_furry

Fratton Fred wrote: »

What, you are going to give all your friends your ashes?

Eat McDonald's five times a day, there'll be plenty.

Nah, the fat would be the first thing to burn up leaving feck all ash.

aujopimur

super_furry wrote: »

Nah, the fat would be the first thing to burn up leaving feck all ash.

I have nice bit of fat on me at the moment, I'd say it would make a nice tasty crackling if they started me off on a spit.

Mr Benevolent

aujopimur wrote: »

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

I wouldn't go planning that too early.

Davidth88

OP

Think of a plastic container about 18 inches high , about 6 inches deep/wide


Weight , about 2 kg I would say , it's quite dense

It's actually quite coarse , not unlike fine gravel

aujopimur

Davidth88 wrote: »

OP

Think of a plastic container about 18 inches high , about 6 inches deep/wide


Weight , about 2 kg I would say , it's quite dense

It's actually quite coarse , not unlike fine gravel

I feel insulted by your last remark. I'll have you know I have very fine and delicate bones.

arse..biscuits

It's a nice idea to give everyone at the funeral some ashes to take away with them. That's what happened at Jade Goody's funeral.








Everyone went home with a goody bag.

Napper Hawkins

arse..biscuits wrote: »

It's a nice idea to give everyone at the funeral some ashes to take away with them. That's what happened at Jade Goody's funeral.








Everyone went home with a goody bag.

Lol

Infallable

aujopimur wrote: »

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

A relative of mine passed away recently and I saw their ashes. It's light enough to lift and the urn is maybe maybe a foot high? Bit less maybe?

demakinz

Don't they burn the coffin as well?
I would consider getting cremated but id rather be scattered some place. Keeping your friends or relatives ashes seems a bit strange to me.

AnonoBoy

I'm going to have myself chipped up into lines and everyone can have a snort to get the funeral after-party started.

Just like what Keith Richards did/didn't do to his dad's ashes.

BunShopVoyeur

Here you go.

Worth a watch, very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBaCZ3slis

shopaholic01

BunShopVoyeur wrote: »

Here you go.

Worth a watch, very interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBaCZ3slis

I can see those individual remains getting mixed up! Has to be better than burial, though.

Bornslippy

Three to ten pounds ! Whats that in euros ?

BUBBLE WRAP

Bornslippy wrote: »

Three to ten pounds ! Whats that in euros ?

about 3 fiddy...

demakinz

demakinz wrote: »

Don't they burn the coffin as well?
I would consider getting cremated but id rather be scattered some place. Keeping your friends or relatives ashes seems a bit strange to me.

I have My Mams ashes here in the house.
I get comfort from it. But yeah I can see how some would find it strange .

Plazaman

aujopimur wrote: »

Does anyone know how much ash (weight/volume) the average adult male makes when cremated,
I want to make sure there's enough for all my friends and relations.

Pffftt, ashes are so 90's, it'll be diamonds all round for everybody when I go.

Unless I'm attacked by a regime of fitness, there may be one for everyone in the audience (and the audience of the following funeral)

jsn.peters

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jsn.peters

arse..biscuits wrote: »

It's a nice idea to give everyone at the funeral some ashes to take away with them. That's what happened at Jade Goody's funeral.








Everyone went home with a goody bag.

Oldie but GOODY

BUBBLE WRAP

jsn.peters wrote: »

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What the hell is this about?

Rented Mule

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

What the hell is this about?

About three fiddy.

holystungun9

retalivity wrote: »

about 3 fiddy

I tried my best.

OP don't worry about the specifics. Just get get a nice glass table, a (glass top friendly) trowel and lots of five euros notes (recession an' all).
Invite loved ones round (get an alive friend to do this), make a nice long line of yourself (mate can help with the trowel) and there should be enough for all.
If there isn't, well then that's your fault.

kowloon

BunShopVoyeur wrote: »

YOUTUBE video

Anyone imagine that ending with '...and now you know, how it's made'?

BunShopVoyeur

kowloon wrote:

Anyone imagine that ending with '...and now you know, how it's made'?

I am now

Podgers

My uncle has to service some of them burners in the UK...

have no idea what weight it should be but i can tell you one thing...

they put a magnet over the remains to pic up any metal bits (jewellery)

and not all the ashes are of thee person during the sweep up!

now i would like to think not all places have the same standards of practice.

Micky Dolenz

Doesn't seem overly dignified. Wrapped in plastic, put in a cardboard box, sealed with duct tape and fcuked into a furnace.

holystungun9

jsn.peters wrote: »

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BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

What the hell is this about?

It's a minuscule column of ash about to be blown over.

haulagebasher

It doesn't matter how fat or heavy the crematee is. You do know that the "ashes" isn't really ashes like you get if burning paper or wood. It's ground down bones.

Yeah, all the soft stuff is burnt off and the relatively intact bones are left. These are then remuved from the furnace and put into a grinder or crusher of some sort and turned into powder.

A rough guide of what to expect would be to somehow estimate the DRY mass of a persons skeleton structure.

BUBBLE WRAP

holystungun9 wrote: »

It's a minuscule column of ash about to be blown over.

I should have known. :pac:

Pottler

You should have the "giving out the ashes ceremony" on a wednesday. Don't know why, but a wednesday just seems right.

BUBBLE WRAP

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Doesn't seem overly dignified. Wrapped in plastic, put in a cardboard box, sealed with duct tape and fcuked into a furnace.

About 3 fiddy.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Isn't everybody in or around the same weight when cremated anyway?

Interesting to see that on occasions big bones like the pelvis are removed by hand from the furnace as they don't break down sufficiently to be placed in the final grinding machine.

UglyBolloxFace

retalivity wrote: »

about 3 fiddy

http://www.cheshirecatstudios.com/forum/resources/image/2756

Sigh

BUBBLE WRAP

UglyBolloxFace wrote: »

http://www.cheshirecatstudios.com/forum/resources/image/2756

Sigh

About 3 fiddy...

ChippingSodbury

"Dead Good Job" was on BBC2 9pm tonight speaking about the very subject. The Funeral Director reckoned around 2kg: it was on the BBC therefore it must be right!!!

EireIceMan

Creamation is so 90's.
Taxidermy is where its at op

Mickey H

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

About 3 fiddy.

BUBBLE WRAP wrote: »

About 3 fiddy...

Never gets old that.

UglyBolloxFace

EireIceMan wrote: »

Creamation is so 90's.
Taxidermy is where its at op

http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Chuck-Testa.jpg

Son Of A Vidic

retalivity wrote: »

about 3 fiddy

As Herman Melville once said..

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation

Wee Willy Harris

Creamed and rated remains.

Eden3

Sick thread ...:mad:. I mean, really, do you have nothing more socially acceptable to talk about....?

BUBBLE WRAP

Eden3 wrote: »

Sick thread ...:mad:. I mean, really, do you have nothing more socially acceptable to talk about....?

Welcome to after hours!

keith16

Something so....undignified about being cremated.

All that you put your body through in life...all the good stuff....all the bad stuff. And at the very end it's incinerated like a bag of turf on a stormy November evening....

I suppose there's no real dignity in death.

Anyway, enough depressing talk. PANCAKES!!

themadchef

keith16 wrote: »

I suppose there's no real dignity in death.

I dunno, i think them auld vikings did a great job of it.

Gimmie that any day over a Zombie eating the bejayzus out of me.

keith16

themadchef wrote: »

I dunno, i think them auld vikings did a great job of it.

Gimmie that any day over a Zombie eating the bejayzus out of me.

True, and at least you knew your wife would be in good hands long after your corpse decayed into nothingness!!