I work in 911 dispatch, and there’s a couple crematoriums in the county I work for. Once in a while they call to give us a heads-up when they’re doing a cremation in case anyone calls about smoke.

We enter it as a “controlled burn” notification for our fire department, which I suppose it technically is, but it makes me chuckle a little that we’re entering the same way we would as if someone was burning yard waste or having a bonfire or something.

I don’t know how often they actually do cremations, I assume it’s pretty frequent, and I’m not always the one getting the call, but based on how often I’ve seen these calls go in I don’t think they do it for every cremation. I remember hearing somewhere through the grapevine that when the deceased is extremely obese they tend to really smoke up, so I kind of suspect those are the ones where they give us a heads-up.

Nah, those are brilliant

Reminds me of an old billboard screw-up in Finland.

One billboard (I can’t remember what the ad was actually for) was quoting an old saying: “If sauna, tar and booze won’t help…” (“…the disease is going to kill you”)

Next to it was an ad for a private clinic. “We’ve got everything to keep you healthy”

Peak of advertising, I bet these pictures spread on internet like wild fire