Cremation

kronos · Postby **kronos** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:15 pm

I beleive that just burring bodies takes to long, espeicialy when theres lots of them, i thought why dont we have cremating. Wood and maybe something else and just pile thew bodies on give it a light and bam all the bodies gone. Also you could burn more than one bodies at a time.

Snake_byte · Postby **Snake_byte** » Tue May 25, 2004 9:26 pm

This could work. But I think it would have to also be a project and not an instant thing as you seem to be describing it. Also, along with this, there might have to be a cremation machine. maybe made of stone and iron or steel. Perhaps the bellows could be used to keep the fire good and hot so you don't just leave chared bodies on the slab.

creepyguyinblack · Postby **creepyguyinblack** » Tue May 25, 2004 10:16 pm

It could even leave behind "cremated ash" resource for one to use as they see fit.
A man in his twenties says, "Buy your ash of <insert historical cantr character here>"

Pirog · Postby **Pirog** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:50 pm

Perhaps animals like rats, vultures etc. should be introduced and they could take care of the corpses in time. They could leave bones behind, that could be used to make tools etc.

There was actually some ancient cultures who left their dead as "food" for the vultures.

west · Postby **west** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:09 am

It's the Zoroastrians.

They don't believe in burning or burying their dead; they put them out in the desert for the vultures. In India, they have huge roofless towers they throw their dead in for the vultures.

Lone Wolf · Postby **Lone Wolf** » Wed May 26, 2004 5:15 am

Cremation takes a very hot fire to burn a body to ash. If I remember correct early cremations were done on a stone table, or with a sort of Scafold that is made of wood to hold the body off the ground (Getting closer to the gods) and then the body is wrapped in an oil soaked cloth, then the body is set on fire, but the bone remain, and it is all just left there.

In reality, if we were going to cremate a body, it would need to be a project and it would take longer than burrying bodies.

kronos · Postby **kronos** » Wed May 26, 2004 6:37 am

well i agree it would be a project but the main thing i wanted is a way of burying more that one person at a time, like a mass burial but that sounds to deathcamp like so i though of cremation.

Lone Wolf · Postby **Lone Wolf** » Wed May 26, 2004 7:16 am

kronos wrote:well i agree it would be a project but the main thing i wanted is a way of burying more that one person at a time, like a mass burial but that sounds to deathcamp like so i though of cremation.

I'm all for the idea of a machine that can burn 3-5 bodies at a time, but I think we should add some more resources so we can make a better fuel, maybe for now have the ability to refine oil into Diesel. Diesel burn much hotter than Gasoline and crude oil, But the bones would still be there, Perhaps buring the bones would be faster than a whole body, and some chars (THe sicos :wink:

) could use the bones for projects

creepyguyinblack · Postby **creepyguyinblack** » Wed May 26, 2004 9:17 am

Maybe for these alternative forms to burying to flourish, the coded burying system could be altered or make more complex or needed some form of confirmation or conditions so bodies can't just be buried anywhere anytime, especially with a grid system.

SekoETC · Postby **SekoETC** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:31 pm

I was going to suggest this but I somehow forgot... If bodies could be incinerated, then things would be easier, after all, there seem to be quite a lot of corpses... There should be some kind of an oven to burn corpses. And why can't we eat human flesh? Of course there would be a note sayind you see a man in his twenties mutilating a corpse, or you see a body of a man in his twenties that has parts of meat cut off...

Lone Wolf · Postby **Lone Wolf** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:40 pm

After a tragic accident near where I live I can honestly say Diesel will not totaly burn a body.

on a two lane piece of the transcanada highway, known as the death strip, two trucks were travleing and one is believed to have tried to pass on the blind corner. In the end he collided with a tanker and in total 3 trucks burnt up. The tanker had chemicals in it. 4 bodies were found and they need to do DNA testing to identify them as they are burnt so bad. A fourth truck was also involved, but they managed to avoid the wreak and crashed in to a rock face, but they were no seriously hurt.

So we would need a proper fuel to cremate somebody

Gunther_01 · Postby **Gunther_01** » Sat May 29, 2004 10:47 am

I always thought that the cremation of a body was doem by exposing the body to ignited gasses. (Hydrogen creates more heat than diesle). So after a certain period of time even the bones burn.
Wood was used as crematorium fuel.
I wouldn't be surprised if coal was used (in fact it's probaly the primary fuel.)
I think that we should have different types of cremation.
We'd have the greek pyer style cremation that was mentioned above, earthen oven, cremation oven, and different projects to do it. (Maybe using different fuels will take longer to burn the entire body. ie:Wood 3 days. Coal 2 days. Oil 1 day.)

Idea: Would it be possible to do the old drop-the-guy-into-the-sea-because-he's-been-a-good-sailor tyoe naval burial from the side of a boat?

Lone Wolf · Postby **Lone Wolf** » Sat May 29, 2004 11:54 am

Well wood and coal I don't think would burn bones :?:

I'm still waiting to find out what kind of Chemicals were in the tanker.

All we need to do is find out what a good fuel would be and what we need to make it, then we ask the resources department to Please Please Please add them to the game :lol:

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