The ELIMINATOR – big enough for a bull!
Crematoriums are struggling to deal with spiralling numbers of stouter clients as the UK’s obesity crisis grows, local government leaders are warning.
The Local Government Association, which represents over 400 councils in England & Wales, is warning that local authorities are finding that many of their crematoria furnaces are too narrow to deal with increasing numbers of over-sized coffins.
Lewisham Council has ordered a special cremator from America, measuring 44ins in width.
Of course.
Tim Morris, Chief Executive of the Institute of Cemetery & Crematorium Management said: “The Institute has received calls from funeral directors from all parts of the country whose local crematorium is unable to cremate large coffins. The likelihood is that a large number of facilities will be upgraded to meet these requirements with some taking this opportunity to install a larger cremator at this time.
If they listened to me, all they’d need would be larger cardboard boxes.
I like how Britain is the headline when Lewisham Council has ordered a special cremator from America
Clicking the link is even harder on the weekend – than during workdays – I guess.
you mean the link to ScienceDaily? SURELY you’re not referring to the Eliminator link, that would be stupid
My name’s not surely.
Um, why is this an issue in GB? DO they not have chainsaws?
Size is everything!
I never understood why they burned the coffin too. All that money just to burn it. Take the body out, stick it in the fire and reuse the coffin.
The topic logos just keep getting better and better.
I too have covered the problem of cremating the rotund.
It can be a fire hazard:
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=7719
Is there some way we can get bio-diesel from this?
#8, Comment by KB — 4/22/2007 @ 6:37 pm,
I liked the picture in the link you provided. She can start a grease fire with me anytime !!
I seem to remember a story a year or 2 ago where a family sued because a cremator refused to cremate a body because it wouldn’t fit inside the ‘fireplace’. I think the family won, unfortunately.