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.
Someone recently sent me a political cartoon depicting President Obama playing the fiddle while the United States was burning in the background. It was portraying the Prez as the infamous Roman emperor Nero who âfiddled while Rome burned to the ground from a fire that he was rumored to have set himself.omeone recently sent me a political cartoon depicting President Obama playing the fiddle while the United States was burning in the background. It was portraying the Prez as the infamous Roman emperor Nero who âfiddled while Rome burned to the ground from a fire that he was rumored to have set himself.