I really think that if folks had a better understanding of what happens in cremation, embalmed entombment and unembalmed burial that we would see a massive societal shift towards unembalmed burial.<p>Cremation, in particular, is a nasty bit of business.  Those &#x27;ashes&#x27; aren&#x27;t actually ashes: they&#x27;re bone meal.<p>The morticians I know would never be cremated, nor wish their loved ones to be (I don&#x27;t know all the morticians in the world, of course: no doubt there are many who would be fine with it).