As the corpse is placed in a casket or container (preferably prepared from a combustible material), the container burns down. Next, the heat dries the body, burns the skin and hair, contracts and chars the muscles, vaporizes the soft tissues, and calcifies the bones so that they eventually crumble.
One such story is that of Nero merrily playing the fiddle while Rome burned in the Great Fire of the first century. It was during the night of the 18 th July 64 AD, when a fire broke out in the merchant area of the city.
The expression is When Rome was burning, Nero fiddled.. Rome had a huge fire and burned do â¦ wn while Nero was the leader and he did nothing to help the cause and was very interested in the arts and played the violin so they came up with that statement to show how much he didn't care about the people.