Once the body is completely burned, the chamber is then cooled and the cremated remains, which are often still recognizable as human skeletal remains, are swept with a long-handled hoe or wire-bristle broom into a tray. A powerful hand-held magnet is run through the ash to pick up metal...
While a first-stage larva is about 2 millimeters long, by the time it exits the third stage and leaves the body as a prepupa, it may be as large as 20 millimeters -- 10 times its initial length. Maggots can consume up to 60 percent of a human body in under seven days [source: ...
In human cremation, there are strict regulations in place to ensure that only one body is cremated at a time (unless special arrangements were made for family members who died together), and great care is taken to ensure each body is treated with respect. Most pet crematoriums do mass crem...
Cremation is the process of adding intense heat to reduce the body to cremated remains or ashes. The process reduces the human body to its base elements, which can take 1 – 4 hours, depending upon the cremation machine. The cremated remains following the cremation are actually bone fragme...
阅读理解How is modern life changing our bones?现代生活是如何改变人类骨骼的?It all started with a goat. The unfortunate animal was born in the Netherlands in1939. On the right side of his body, his front leg was so deformed(畸形的) that walkingon all fours was going to be problematic.Whe...
Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half. This is how cremation actually works, and what happens to a culture when its attitude about how to memorialize the dead undergoes a rev
not so different. In large groups of people, powerful instinctual urges kick in that force us to conform to the behaviour of others, for very good reasons – to be different, to be isolated, is to be eaten. To not respond to a threat in the same way as those next to you is death...
's guest, Ai-jen Poo, is a MacArthur Genius grant recipient and activist. She's the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and she has spent her career trying to change the way we think about care, and the people who provide it. Here's a clip ...
from burning bridges and saying things I couldn’t take back. Time was back to being measured in days. How many days until she was cremated, how many days until we had death certificates, how many days until we needed to make financial decisions. I remember having the realization that two...
If you don't have a yard, bury the dog at your friend's house, or a secret place like the woods. Have the dog cremated. Call your local SPCA or County Animal Services for help. I list all numbers in the USAhere. If the dog is on the smaller side, you can actually bag it and...