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Fire does in an hour what the earth takes decades to finish.
means The act of reducing a corpse to ashes and bone fragments by burning it at extreme heat, used as a way of disposing of or memorializing the dead.
from From Latin cremare, 'to burn,' via the noun cremationem. The root is ancient and purely functional — no myth attached, just the plain verb for consuming something with fire — and it entered English in the 1600s-1700s mostly in scholarly or legal contexts before the modern cremation movement of the 1800s gave the word its now-familiar, clinical second life.
- actual ashes
- mostly pulverized bone, not soot
- process length
- roughly two to three hours per body
- metal survivors
- hip implants often remain, recycled afterward
- global rate rising
- over half of US deaths now cremated