Hours Per Work Week. Prosecutors are employees of state, local or federal government and are paid based on an eight-hour work day. According to the American Prosecutors Research Institute, however, many prosecuting attorneys are logging between 10-30 hours of overtime on a regular basis.ours Per Work Week. Prosecutors are employees of state, local or federal government and are paid based on an eight-hour work day. According to the American Prosecutors Research Institute, however, many prosecuting attorneys are logging between 10-30 hours of overtime on a regular basis.
As a result, actual cremation times vary from 60 minutes to more than 5 hours. In the cremation profession, it is widely stated that it takes about 2 hours to cremate an average body of 150 pounds in a cardboard cremation container.
Cremation is the process of reducing human remains to its basic elements in the form of bone fragments through flame, heat and vaporization (usually 1800 - 2000 degrees Fahrenheit for two hours or more.) Cremation occurs at a crematory in a special kind of furnace called a cremation chamber or retort.