Cremation Process

You may have read that your skull explodes as your brain boils, and that your stomach will also explode. In fact the stomach and brain rarely explode. More likely the top of your cranium will crack and your brain fall out on to the hearth. It has also been said that early in the cremation process the heat causes the trunk to flex forwards violently so that the body suddenly 'sits up,' bursting open the lid of the coffin. This too is a myth.