They could've been dyslexic fruit enthusiasts.

That was my point :p

Discomfort, no. Pointless argument of semantics and your lack of understanding of just how hot a crematorium fire has to be, yes.

I shall bravely struggle on.

What's wrong with tossing dead bodies in private literally minutes before their constituent particles are burnt apart?

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm <toss that football over here>

Maybe placing them in with a large spatula, in the style of a wood-fire pizza oven?

Once a creature has been torn from your lions and/or loins, you would no longer find dead babies funny. You will step into the light of the New Age of Aquarius, where laughter is now based on poopy jokes and sour-milk vomit.

(For clarification, I don't find dead babies funny either, but seriously - the shit tone in…

Frankly this is a brilliant comment and probably exactly how I would compartmentalize this job.

I'm always torn between being aghast towards your comments and chuckling madly at my desk. You are a dark one, I like you.

That's the entire point though. There has to be a level of callousness when routinely dealing with the death of small children. The headline suits the essay to a T and you are doing the entire piece a great disservice by judging it based on a title.

Hah. You should watch some of the "Ask a Mortician" videos she does on YouTube. She makes it clear that death is not usually dignified, and can actually be quite funny and gross and fascinating as well as sad. It's our cultural squeamishness about death that makes us want to sanitize it and regard frank descriptions…

I think that was the point! It was distasteful but it was the only way to get them in. Can you imagine having to do that??

This makes no sense logically and makes it sound like you are more uncomfortable with the idea of dead babies being tossed into a crematorium.

Why do people who don't bother to read something feel they have something to contribute to a conversation?

But she literally tossed them. Maybe you should have done more than skim it.

I think if you read thru the article you wouldn't think it's so ridiculous. Somebody has to do this job, and she writes about it in the most sincere and compassionate way. But you have to be realistic and blunt sometimes. It's the only way you can carry out what she had to do, I think. My gut reaction was the same as…

because if you actually read the article, you would know that she literally has to toss the babies into the cremation chamber. There is no tool for inserting them like an adult.

But I think it serves her greater point: Death happens. We can fear it, revere it, mythologize it. But in the end, we're all just bodies turning to dust.