Elinda wrote:
The fire will stop when it reaches the sea.

Funny you should say that.
Tasmania has a lot of water and is an island state. Thousands of residents and tourists basically wound up sheltering in the sea, often under jetties. Many were isolated on a peninsula, and a flotilla of boats had to come round and supply emergency water, food and other necessities as the fires cut them off for days on end.
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<3 I don't think that reverance or respect for the dead needs the dead to be hidden from sight completely. It is the attitude that you bring, as a witness to a dead body, that matters, not the display and witnessing of a dead body, per se.