Cremation Services: The Neptune Society specializes in cremation services, which involve the process of reducing the body to ashes through intense heat. Cremation has become an increasingly popular choice for end-of-life arrangements due to its environmental friendliness and lower cost compared to traditional burials.

Neptune Society is the largest provider of affordable cremation services in the nation.

Rotation and orbit Neptune's equator seems to rotate once every 18 hours while its polar regions spin once every 12 hours. This difference in rotational speed between the different regions is the largest of any planet and causes the strongest winds in the solar system, as fast as 2100 km/h !

The body's bones are then ground to a fine powder and returned to the deceased person's survivors, just as the bones that remain after flame cremation are returned to families as ash. Alkaline hydrolysis is rare today as a funeral practice for humans.

As might be imagined other countries with a strong Buddhist tradition and modest level of cultural diversity are also big on cremation – South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand are all in the 80-90% bracket. The next biggest proponents are the countries clustered around the North Sea: UK, Sweden, Netherlands and Denmark.

As a general rule, ashes following cremation will weigh between 4 to 6 pounds, or around 3.5% of the person's original weight. In the case of children, ashes weigh about 2.5% of the original body weight.

Neptune, Eighth planet from the Sun, discovered in 1846 and named for the Roman god of the sea. It has an average distance from the Sun of 2.8 billion mi (4.5 billion km), taking nearly 164 years to complete one orbit and rotating every 16.11 hours.

Neptune is one of two ice giants in the outer solar system (the other is Uranus). Most (80% or more) of the planet's mass is made up of a hot dense fluid of "icy" materials – water, methane, and ammonia – above a small, rocky core. Of the giant planets, Neptune is the densest.

All those who attend the cremation, and are exposed to the dead body or cremation smoke take a shower as soon as possible after the cremation, as the cremation ritual is considered unclean and polluting. The cold collected ash from the cremation is later consecrated to the nearest river or sea.

Once you burn off all the water, soft tissues, and cremation container/casket, etc., all that's left is bone. The bone is ground up and given to you as “ashes.”

PHOTOS: The Dead Live With Their Relatives In Indonesia's Toraja Community : Goats and Soda : NPR. PHOTOS: The Dead Live With Their Relatives In Indonesia's Toraja Community : Goats and Soda The Toraja people of Indonesia keep the preserved bodies of their deceased relatives at home for years.

Some, like Tutu, choose cremation for environmental reasons, as it is a more sustainable option than burial. Others prefer it for its simplicity over burial, and in the case of a no-frills direct cremation, for its lower cost. Below are eight more celebrities that opted for cremation after death.