Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Color of ashes

When they rake you out of the furnace your cremains may be a grey and white mixture or dark grey (charcoal), with unburnt trabecular bone (bone with an internal latticework) showing up yellow.

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If zinc had been used in the construction of your coffin, some of your cremains might appear slightly yellowed; if iron, green; if copper, pink. Metals in the jewelry you were wearing as you burnt up would also affect the color of your ashes.

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