Different people burn differently. If you thin without much fat, you will be more difficult to burn, since you are a mass of wet tissue. I have a moderate amount of fat, so will be much easier to cremate. My fat will ignite instantly on the application of flame and produce a great surge of heat.
If you are obese cremating you will be "like burning kerosene" (according to a cremation furnace manufacturer). I have read reports of fat from larger bodies actually running out the cremator door burning as it goes. The worst to burn are bodies that have died in fires as the charring makes a crust that doesn't ignite well or drowning victims because of the extreme water levels.
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