I hope I'm not offending you should you already have a loved one in an urn in your life, and maybe you already know this, but I'm leading to a point, I swear!
Cremation does not reduce a body to ash. Bone fragments remain, sometimes rather sizable ones despite the intense heat. They're usually pulverized as the last stage of the process. Even then, it's not a fine, consistent ash unless the crematorium takes great pains to sift and pulverize repeatedly. The four sets of cremains I have are like coarse sand with some flecks of bone that are comparable to the size and shape of a panko bread crumb (Yes, I admit I'm weird, but I just spent several minutes trying to think of something similar).
My point is that cremation should give no different results than those for the crispy-fried bomber from E1. The cremated people may not have nice moist eyes and functioning lids, but there's still SOMETHING there to contain this abundance of life Jack says they have.
Also, Vera herself points out that no one goes into comas any longer, and no one has the mercy of losing consciousness. So they writers are either completely forgetting what they've already established (which wouldn't surprise me), or that's part of the point they're trying to make: it's really THAT horrible what's being done.
All of which leaves me wondering exactly WHAT Gwen blew up, and if there were any people inside...
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Date: 2011-08-15 12:08 am (UTC)I hope I'm not offending you should you already have a loved one in an urn in your life, and maybe you already know this, but I'm leading to a point, I swear!
Cremation does not reduce a body to ash. Bone fragments remain, sometimes rather sizable ones despite the intense heat. They're usually pulverized as the last stage of the process. Even then, it's not a fine, consistent ash unless the crematorium takes great pains to sift and pulverize repeatedly. The four sets of cremains I have are like coarse sand with some flecks of bone that are comparable to the size and shape of a panko bread crumb (Yes, I admit I'm weird, but I just spent several minutes trying to think of something similar).
My point is that cremation should give no different results than those for the crispy-fried bomber from E1. The cremated people may not have nice moist eyes and functioning lids, but there's still SOMETHING there to contain this abundance of life Jack says they have.
Also, Vera herself points out that no one goes into comas any longer, and no one has the mercy of losing consciousness. So they writers are either completely forgetting what they've already established (which wouldn't surprise me), or that's part of the point they're trying to make: it's really THAT horrible what's being done.
All of which leaves me wondering exactly WHAT Gwen blew up, and if there were any people inside...