Posted on 05/10/2008 2:24:54 PM PDT by LJayne
The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
More “privatization” of military functions?
a couple of questions:
1. how is the determination made to cremate versus burial?
2. Is this result of a low bid contract?
3. Do military chaplains have any part of the procedure?
It wouldn't bother me to be cremated there.
This seems to be much ado about nothing. The company has 3 cremetoria furnaces. One for pets, and two for humans. The pet furnace is too small for humans.
It wouldn’t bother me to be cremated there.
The headline is very misleading. Per the article in the WaPost today the military cremations took place at a facility which also had a separate facility onsite for cremating pets.
Those people should arrange to be cremated at someplace they're more comfortable with.
So what’s the big deal? Have any of these people that were cremated complained?
Yep. Just a way for the MSM to portray “Dubya doesn’t care about the soldiers and all Republicans hate our servicemen!”
It wouldn't bother me in the least and I gave up long ago trying to figure out what will bother other people. It's anything and everything, it would seem, these days.
Many crematoriums have separate “rooms” within the furnace so that they can keep pet remains separate from human. The cost of running the operation dictates that they need to make their services available for both.
“The pet furnace is too small for humans.”
And the human furnace is too big for pets?
I can think of worse......
“The pet furnace is too small for humans.”
“And the human furnace is too big for pets?”
Plus consider that sometimes bodies may be in a condition that there is not a lot to cremate.
exactly.. And tomorrow the Seattle paper will go back to portraying the military as stupid psychopaths.
Cremation has to do with temperature and time and that gets into cost. Retorts are rated at pounds per hour for enviromental reasons. Per their environmental permits, they are tested regularly for Visual Emissions (i.e. smoke) compliance. If they’re too ‘cold’ they will put out visible smoke. If they’re overloaded they will smoke. Newer ones will run at about 1800 degrees F and be essentially done in an hour. Unless you put in enough pets, it’s not economical to run a human retort to do a cat.
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