Aussie wrote on Jan 11
th, 2018 at 11:54am:
Why a few days. If someone was after a viewing in the expensive box, they'd just bung the body in it for that viewing period, and then out into whatever.
Sometimes they're available for viewings for a week or more.
So, they might need to roll out the expensive coffin quite a few times.
The price you pay compensates them for moving the body in and out of the fridge, dusting off the fancy coffin, etc.
Aussie wrote on Jan 11
th, 2018 at 11:54am:
Just had a look a a floor plane a crematorium. When the coffin moves out of site and disappears through the curtain, it arrives in a transition room. The buggers could do anything there, as it is out of sight. Change the box or whatever. I'm also told that they do not necessarily fire up then and there, and often will wait until they can burn several one after the other to keep powerup etc costs down.
Yep, that's right.
They quite often store the bodies until they have a half a dozen or so to do.
They rarely fire up the oven for just one body.
And yes, they can do anything back there.
At the very least, they remove the brass handles, but it's not uncommon to put the bodies into a cardboard or thin pine coffin.