I guess we must arrange an experiment…
Arrange to toss a freshly dispatched pig (low amount of fur…bare skin…and similar mass as a human) and toss it into the volcano/molten steel ladle and video record the results.
This.
January, 1982. Jones and Laughlin, Aliquippa.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19820118&id=HckdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CV4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4132,1561036
They’d pour the steel out onto the ground somewhere , on the chance they could find remains in the slag, but then they’d put lumps of steel back into the process -as if it was scrap to be recycled.
Do you know what would be ironic? If the family of this poor fellow bought silverware with a steel part contaminated with his dead body.
One of my earliest memories of infants’ school (age 4 or 5) relates to this. They had climbing equipment in the playground made out of cast concrete, like giant pommel horse shapes IIRC (this being before Health and Safety was such a big deal, evidently).
One really hot day I remember being fascinated that the sunbaked concrete surface felt icy cold to my hands, but if I left them there they got burnt by the heat.
We all know from Joe vs. the Volcano that if you jump into a volcano, it will shoot you back out before you touch the lava. But only if you jump in with Meg Ryan.
If I was going to jump into anything with Meg Ryan, it wouldn’t be a volcano.
But for those of you considering calling it quits this way, I suggest diving head-first, with your arms at your sides.