If you wish to depart this earth in a puff of smoke, Johannesburg has just the place for you. It has an excellent state of the art crematorium that has kept up with the times. Here is a heritage building with a difference. I have known about the crematorium since I was a child and attended a cremation service for the father of a friend. I have always found cremation ceremonies to be harrowing in the extreme because the visible observation of human remains going up in smoke is just too graphic and disturbing and seems to make the finality of death and farewell so totally final. Of course, my attitude is completely irrational but being buried seems so much more natural than a dramatic conflagration. The rational part of my brain stayed with the idea that a cremation is efficient, clinical and environmentally sound.
Cremations are not as popular as burials but their social acceptability has been rising. The convenience of a cremation is that you ultimately receive the ashes of your loved one and those ashes can be scattered wherever the mourning survivor wishes.
Crematorium in the process of expansion with the addition of an extension on the right hand side (SA Builder Magazine)
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