When the Grim Reaper visits you and you breath your last breath, what will happen to your body?   Cremation perhaps?   This site is to give you honest accurate information on cremation.   Not a sentimental sales pitch.   Here you can find out...

• What happens in the crematorium
• What impact cremation has on the environment
• The pros and cons of cremation

This site is to speak about the unspeakable, break taboos and inject a certain black humour into thinking about our final reduction to 4 or 5 pounds of ash.   The occasional image of a good looking girl (OK or guy), vaguely in context will relieve the grim story of your final total destruction.   Some pages - especially those devoted to cremation humour or cremation in the movies - contain mildly "adult" images.   If this offends find another page to view

Death is the final taboo in Western Society.   The Cremation Process is the final taboo within the final taboo.   This site hopes to lift the lid or maybe open the over door.

What this site is not aiming to do is cause offence or upset.   If you are likely to find the material here upsetting, please find another page to view

Perhaps you believe you can avoid cremation, but just think about it:

• You won't live forever.
• 70% of funerals in England and Wales are by Cremation.
• Sam Weller of the Association of Burial Authorities in England, says the cemetery industry wants cremation mandatory to allow for anticipated future growth.

• 700,000 US citizens were cremated nationwide last year. That number is expected to double by 2025.
• Cremation is perhaps one third the cost of burial in the US.
• Don't think you are safe in the grave, a family in Florida had their Grandmother disinterred and cremated - so she could go to Michigan with them.

So perhaps it is time you found out what will happen when your mortal remains enter the cremator.

I hope that you will choose cremation, but will choose knowing the facts.   For this reason I've read everything I can find and talked to some professionals to try to make this site accurate.   I always welcome corrections and new information especially from the experts.   So come and see what I have discovered, but be warned, this journey is not for the faint hearted.

This site was originally developed with Nicola as a Geocities offering.   I looked after the page layout and images, she did the text and publicity.   Nicola has now moved onto darker things and I have taken over the whole site.   I decided it was time for a proper web address, layout changes and some new content - so here we are.   I hope to keep the feel of the original.

I first heard about cremation from my friend Nigel when I was 10.   He told me that his grandad had been "taken to a factory to be burned".   I was fascinated.   I imagined big furnaces filled with blazing coal into which naked corpses were thrown.   From then on I wanted to find out what happened at these factories.   I went to my first cremation at 14.   I remember watching pale smoke puffing out of the crematorium chimney after the service.

At that point I knew I wanted to be cremated.   I have found out a lot more about cremation since those early days - but it has only increased my conviction that I want to go up in flames inside a cremation furnace.   My view is that the more is know about cremation the better.   On one hand, false rumours and horror stories will be stopped.   On the other, people will not opt for cremation without really knowing what is involved.   I hope you find this site informative.