History Main / FurnaceBodyDisposal

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->''"What's the best way to dispose of a body? I think the best option is to just put them in an industrial sized incinerator... although that's probably not the most environmentally friendly thing to do."''
-->--'''WebVideo/NeuroSama'''

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': "Moseley Lane" has this, but there is also definite overlap with MurderByCremation. The child abductors are shown to want to kill their most recent, troublesome victim by putting her in their furnace (while still alive). However, they are also shown to place all their victims' bodies, regardless of how they died, in the furnace and spread their ashes in their garden.

* ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'': Maria disposes of Kowase's corpse by chopping him up into smaller pieces, and then burning them in a barrel.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Shufgar's men try to dispose of Kevyn's corpse by dumping him in an incinerator. Unfortunately for them, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-03-30 Kevyn is not all the way dead yet]].

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #151, Spider-Man disposes of the body of the first clone of Peter Parker (created by the Jackal) by dumping it down a smokestack into an industrial incinerator.

* The classic ''Manga/AstroBoy'' story ''The Blast Furnace Mystery'' involves Astro and a young police detective investigating the detective's father after he's spotted dropping what appears to be a man's body into a blast furnace. [[spoiler:As it turns out, the detective is [[TomatoInTheMirror actually a robot who was raised to believe he was human]]. His creator had been periodically transplanting his AI into older-looking bodies while he slept and discarding the previous ones in the furnace so he would appear to age normally.]]
* In ''Manga/MariaNoDanzai'', Maria disposes of Kowase's corpse by chopping him up into smaller pieces, then burning them in a barrel.

* In a Golden Age ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' story, a businessman is killing his rivals and using the furnace in his factory to get rid of the bodies. Batman quickly learns the truth and confronts him one night. Batman even tells him that he knows he's disposing of a body right now. When the businessman asks how he could know that, Batman points out that it's late at night, the factory is shut down...but the furnace in the basement is roaring.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan disposed of the body of the first clone of Peter Parker (created by the Jackal) at the end of the original version of ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'' by dumping it down a smokestack into an industrial incinerator.

* In ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'', Blank is attacked by an assassin while at his high school reunion. He manages to kill the guy right before an old friend shows up. Convincing his friend to help him, they get the body to the school's basement and load it into the furnace. Points for realism when it's plain the door to the furnace is so hot they can barely touch it.
* ''Film/IAmMother''. When Daughter finds a mouse has someone got into their underground bunker, her robot Mother declares a risk of infection and has it incinerated over her protests. [[spoiler:Later Daughter takes a close look at the incinerator and finds the jawbone of a young girl like herself, telling her she's not the first 'Daughter' that Mother has tried to raise.]]

* Played with in ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps'', JC is infected by the zombie slugs and figures out they're vulnerable to heat. He tries to get to the school's basement furnace and lure as many of the slugs as he can down there after him, intending to put himself in the furnace after they infect him so he can wipe them out and avoid becoming a zombie himself. His attempt at a HeroicSacrifice fails, but he earns an A for effort.
* We are told in ''Film/TheOrphanage'' that [[spoiler:Benigna, the old caretaker of the orphanage, poisoned the five children who were unwittingly responsible for her son's death, cremated the bodies and [[ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome stored the remains in sacks in a shed by the house]].]]
* In ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', the heroes realize the zombies cannot be killed and decide the only way to truly get rid of them is through cremation. This backfires, since the fumes spread the Trioxin (the chemical that created the zombies) into the clouds, resulting in a rain that causes ''more'' zombies to rise. [[spoiler:Frank also cremates ''himself'' after realizing his infection is almost complete.]]
* ''Horrifically'' displayed in ''Film/SchindlersList'': Oskar Schindler is talking with a Nazi officer near the Buchenwald furnaces. The officer offers to drive Schindler to his destination but first must sweep three or more inches of ashes off of his vehicle. The ashes are a by-product of incinerating hundreds of bodies all day, every day under Hitler's "Final Solution."

* The aptly named ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Intern in the Incinerator" has this, just like the title says. An intern at the lab was killed and ended up discovered in the lab's incinerator.
* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' has the episode [[Recap/ColumboS10E12 "Ashes to Ashes"]], which portrays this trope realistically thanks to the murderer Eric Prince being the owner of the major funeral home with a cremation oven that is naturally designed to turn bodies into ashes. After Prince's former lover Verity Chandler shows up at his morgue to boast about exposing him on television for [[RobbingTheDead pilfering valuables from bodies]] to fund his operations, she is bludgeoned in the head as she tries to leave with nobody witnessing the deed. Chandler's body is stored away to be cremated later in the episode.

* In ''VideoGame/EvilGenius2'', the bodies of dead agents are disposed of in incinerators so that they don't lower the morale of the minions or become incriminating evidence for other snooping agents to find.
* In ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' level "Whittleton Creek", 47 is able to use the furnace under [[SerialKiller Helen West]]'s house to get rid of a target, whether dead [[MurderByCremation or alive]].
* In ''[[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne-3]]'', when Max goes into the dilapidated Imperial Palace Hotel, he sees mercenaries shoving body parts into the hotel's reactivated furnaces. As Max fights his way up the hotel he discovers that [[spoiler: those are remains of people rounded up by [[PoliceBrutality an aggressive SWAT team]] that then sold them to the mercenaries so that a renowned surgeon can [[OrganTheft harvest their organs]] to sell on the BlackMarket]]. This horrific discovery gets Max the angriest he has been in a ''long'' time.

* ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'' uses his waste disposal business' garbage incinerator to dispose of the bodies from his "other business". And then he sells the ash as discount fertilizer.
* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Shufgar's men try to dispose of Kevyn's corpse by dumping him in an incinerator. Unfortunately for them, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-03-30 Kevyn is not all the way dead yet]].

->”What’s the best way to [[DisposingOfABody dispose of a body]]? I think the best option is to just put them in an industrial sized incinerator… [[VillainWithGoodPublicity although that’s probably not the most environmentally friendly thing to do.]]”
-->--WebVideo/NeuroSama