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Crematorium Technician here

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CodLiverOil556 · 31/05/2018 13:11

I see lots of threads about cremations and Crematoria. I'm currently a crem tech so please ask me questions and I will endeavor to answer them.

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tolerable · 01/06/2018 18:06

ooooh..i waas reading this earlier today www.lonite.co.uk/?gclid=CjwKCAjw3cPYBRB7EiwAsrc-uQHiTX42K3QO8q7qQ_JMC72oGlPosUJjCZTSeWnQdecA2EgMMMeotxoCZ_IQAvD_BwE. op..are you going to be funeral director or is that seperate?

Catrina1234 · 01/06/2018 18:02

How do we find classics please?

Elendon · 01/06/2018 18:02

I don't understand people who visit graves. But that's just me.

Fadingmemory · 01/06/2018 18:01

Kermit,

What an interesting thread! Thank you for your answers.

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LornaMumsnet · 01/06/2018 18:01

Hi all,

We've had an awful lot of classics nominations for this thread. It's wonderful how informative everyone is finding this.

We're moving this over to classics now for safekeeping.

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DesignStatement · 01/06/2018 18:00

Do you not think it is such a waste when people have loved ones cremated wearing precious jewellery if it just ends up at the scrapyard?

Catrina1234 · 01/06/2018 18:00

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread as don't have time now but will come back to it - very interesting. I don't want an expensive funeral as I think charges are excessive. I've looked into it and there are people operating a much cheaper system. I don't want a funeral - just my immediate family gathering later. I understand that the body can be handed over at the crem (by arrangement) but can't be a cardboard coffin. Is that right, something to do with the burning process? There are other papers you need aren't there - obviously death certificate, but anything else? I don't want any ashes, just driven in a car to the crem and handed over - is that possible. Thank you so much for this thread.

Elendon · 01/06/2018 18:00

What's the cheapest way to get buried?

Is cremation adding to climate warming?

Am I better just getting burned without the coffin? I really don't mind if ashes are mingled. I'm not into purity.

WorkingItOutAsIGo · 01/06/2018 17:57

Thank you so much - I had such a wonderful experience with the Funeral Directors when we buried my DF but knew less about the crematorium side of things - in fact always found it a bit creepy and soulless. I know see I was wrong and am so touched and moved by your words. I hope you - or someone like you - works where we cremated my DF.

Nominating for classics too.

ciderhouserules · 01/06/2018 17:56

Pupsiecola yes I think that's probably the article. (I thik I prob read it on FB and the 'Swimming with Ashes' comment was on there) Gosh was it really 2013? It's a shame things haven't progressed further to using the heat from all cremators.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:48

@Icanttakemuchmore pins/plates/metal bits are removed after cremation but before cremulation.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:47

@Mimsy123 the coffin is put on a catafalque during the funeral so hasn't even gone into the crematory yet so no that's not right.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:45

@Excitedforxmas I really hope not. Sometimes we can't get any ashes after a baby but we endeavor to.

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Topseyt · 01/06/2018 17:45

Ican, I think she meant after cremation but before the bones go into the cremulator to be ground to ash.

I could be wrong.

Icanttakemuchmore · 01/06/2018 17:42

Hi. You said pins plates etc are removed from the ashes before they're cremated but they're not ashes until the cremation so do you actually cut the pins plates etc out of the body before cremation?

HappenedForAReisling · 01/06/2018 17:41

Do you have any thoughts about the alkaline hydrolysis 'water cremation'? Seems to take longer, and not used here because effluent not approved for going into sewers (yet). Personally, I'd rather go up the chimney than down the drain..........

I'm hoping that's available when I pop my clogs because that's my chosen method.

Buxtonstill · 01/06/2018 17:40

What an interesting thread. I hope it gets moved to classics. Thanks OP

NorksAreMessy · 01/06/2018 17:39

Thank you kermit

Sadly we have lost an Aunty, MIL, FIL stepMIL and a family friend all in the last two years. Each of them was cremated, and although I was curious, there was never a right time to ask ‘so what happens now?’

Thank you for being so kind and respectful. You have made me a bit tearful.

Mimsy123 · 01/06/2018 17:37

Is it true that if I people are late to a cremation, you can put the deceased on a low-light until everyone arrives?

Excitedforxmas · 01/06/2018 17:36

When my baby died years ago I was told the baby might be put on top of another coffin for cremation - would this have been correct as no ashes were given back

Pupsiecola · 01/06/2018 17:10

@ciderhouserules is this the article?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-23104502

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:09

@ChimpyChops please do as you'll find it very interesting.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:08

@kateandme yes we've had people try to break in but more for gardening tools. And no we don't do animals out cremator is for humans only.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:07

@makingmiracles chances are that wasn't the funeral that you had just been too but I'm very sorry you had to see that. Sometimes things are put into coffins that we don't see and we have to trust funeral directors.

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CodLiverOil556 · 01/06/2018 17:05

@SofieMonde we don't have a button as such but I have had someone ask if they could close the door but I couldn't let them unfortunately as it was too close to cremator.

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