Kelly Pierce muses:

[KP]: I wonder what an audio describer would say about an embalmed body.
Some view the cremation process, with glass sides on the crematory machine.
Is a blow by blow description of bodily tissues being vaporized at more than
one thousand degrees and large bones, including the skull, being pulverized
by a grinding machine really necessary?

[JM]: Well, its not been an issue in Georgia (though I don't live there.)
That having been said, while I wouldn't necessarily care to hear such a
thing described, the job of an audio describer is to describe, not pass
editorial judgement.

For those who might have an interest in hearing an audio description of a
highly analogous / equally, in fact more grusome, event, might I recommend
the opening chapter of Gary Jennings "Aztec Autumn" (RC49267; the sequel to
"Aztec") which describes an auto de fe (burning at the stake) in rather
vivid detail.

John


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