An 1889 oil painting by Louis Édouard Fournier, The Funeral of Shelley, depicts a somber ceremony as the body of Percy Bysshe Shelley is cremated on a Tuscany beach, July 18, 1822.

From Frankensteinia.blogspot

  • @[email protected]OPM
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    210 months ago

    I suppose a lot of that heat goes up and out into the atmosphere instead into the body, like in a modern crematorium.

    • @WhiteOakBayou
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      110 months ago

      Yeah, and these guys definitely had bricks and even ceramics. They were just being dramatic. On brand