You know... cremated "ashes" are really just the skeletal remains that are then crushed into coarse powder, right? Soft tissue is all but nearly consumed. Even teeth... very little if anything remains. Volume wise.. you're talking about 3-3.5L for an adult. Considering a pringles can is about 24cu/in's... you would need about 8 of em. (180-210cu.in)Yes, I wonder about the volume of ash created from a human cremation. It seems to me that most of the urns I've seen would be unable to hold the entire load. Like the larger bone fragments that don't fully combust. So do the cremationists cheat a little, and only fill as much as the urn will take and dispose of the overflow otherwise?
How much tissue a person is or isn't packin on their skeleton isn't all that significant of a difference in the end.
Edit: A little google-fu. I looks like the industry standard for an urn in the U.S. is 200cu/in.
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