Cremation

The casket is placed on a tray in the crematorium and the family members are there to watch the body being placed. The cremation usually takes about two hours, and the family will return afterwards when it is finished. The relatives will then pick the remaining bones out of the ashes and transfer them to the urn with large chopsticks or metal picks. The foot bones are placed first and the head comes last, for they do not want to have the deceased upside down in the urn.