Cremations is burning a corpse in a crematorium furnace or a crematory fire. The remains or often called as cremains are not ashes but are dried bone fragments which have broken down in a device called a cremulator.

Cremations may pose as a funeral or post-funeral rite that is an alternative to the traditional burial of an intact body in a coffin. The cremains, which pose no health risk, can be buried, immured on memorials or cemeteries, kept by relatives or disposed in a lot of ways and in different locations.

When a cremation is about to take place, the body is taken out of the coffin and placed onto a different container for the cremation process. During this process, the majority of the body and the internal organs will be vaporized in about two hours and the remnants would be dry bone fragments that are mostly calcium phosphates and minor minerals. These remnants will usually have a light grey colour and would represent 3.5% of the body’s original mass depending on the sex.

The remnants will be gathered and placed will be broken down in a cremulator or informally called as a crembola. This will then turn the remnants into fine grains, just like sand, and placed into a simple box or an elegant urn.