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Flappers posted...

^ Yup, a fire needs to be unbelievably hot to kill before smoke does. People think it's easy to just burn a body but it's actually really hard. Why do you think cremation needs to be done in a special furnace?

Well, that's not actually true. If you catch on fire, the fire will likely kill you before the smoke. However, you can easily die from asphyxiation or heat stroke before the fire gets to you.

There was the case of a tram breaking down in a sloped tunnel where the only people who survived were the guys who walked back to where the first was and proceeded down the tunnel. Everybody who went up in the tunnel away from the fire was killed by the fumes or heat.

Flappers posted...

First thing that happens is that your clothes will melt into your flesh.

Again, melt really isn't the right word.

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