Time to learn a few things, kids:

:D FYI: It takes an hour and a half for a 180lb man to be burned to ash in a crematoria oven. These incinerators reach heats of 1,100 to 1,300 degrees F.

:D FYI: A human body will typically decay four times faster in water than it will on land.

:D FYI: 'Mysophilia' is defined as an abnormal attraction to filth, including "sexual arousal from soiled clothing or foul decaying odors."

:D FYI: Medieval Christians believed that cats were evil creatures associated with witchcraft, so they burned and slaughtered tens of thousands of the furry felines. As a result, the rat and flea populations - carriers of the Black Plague - surged and caused the disease to spread even more virulently.

:D FYI: If all the human body's natural defenses ceased at once, the bacteria in the gut would eat the body from the inside out in 48 hours.

:D FYI: Every day, humans shed approximately ten billion scales of dead skin. Calculated over a lifetime, this discarded dermis could weigh up to 40 lbs., and fill 18 sugar bags.

:D FYI: Researchers have discovered that when an insect dies in an outdoor bug zapper, it explodes, sending bug bits flying outwards up to six feet.

:D FYI: Headphones, when worn for an hour, will increase the bacteria in one's ear by 700 percent.

:D FYI: In 14th Century Crimea, the Tartar army learned the use of the bubonic plague as a battleground weapon, disease-ridden corpses were catapulted over the walls of cities held under siege.

:D FYI: When King Pedro of Portugal was crowned in 1355, he exhumed the corpse of his mistress so that his subjects could properly honour her as their queen. Citizens were expected to bow before her body and kiss her dead hand.

:D FYI: Bezoars, bunches of hair, vegetable fibers and food that form indigestible masses in the stomachs of both humans and animals were once believed to be magical and to function as an antidote to poisoning.

:D FYI: In 19th Century England, the collecting of shrunken heads became such a fad that counterfeiters in the Amazon would dig up the bodies of the poor and shrink their heads locally, sweatshop style. The modified melons sold for roughly $25 per noggin'.

:D FYI: Khoona, a beverage believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac, is consumed by Afghani tribesmen on their wedding night. The drink is, in fact, comprised of a small amount of fresh, still-warm bull semen.

The really messed up thing is, there is probably some bean counter out there that estimated the cost to energy ratio of that furnace....

Meaning....getting the cheapest cost of burning a body....

Uh, thanks for saving the best FYI for last! :o :lol: