Re: Cremation...
Here are some of famous people who did it
ASHES TO ASHES
Einstein
Gandhi
Actor Marlon Brando
Chinese leader Zhao
Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh
List of fictional people who were cremated.
Modern fiction - film
Branmer - Babylon 5 episode Legacies - (exact method not known)
Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
Donny - The Big Lebowski
Kikyo - Inuyasha (pyre)
"Grandpa" Gustafson - "Grumpier Old Men" - (crematorium)
Qui-Gon Jinn - The Phantom Menace - (pyre)
Darth Vader - Return of the Jedi - (pyre)
Xena -- Xena: Warrior Princess
Valeria -- Conan the Barbarian (pyre)
Modern fiction - literature
Denethor - The Return of the King (self-immolation on a pyre)
Sam McGee - "The Cremation of Sam McGee" (improvised crematorium)
Aimee Thanatogenos -- "The Loved One", Evelyn Waugh (crematorium)
The crew of Red Dwarf (radioactive blast)
Mythology
Beowulf -- "Beowulf" (pyre)
Hector -- "The Illiad", Homer (pyre)
Achilles -- Greek mythology (pyre)
Hercules -- Greek mythology (self-immolation on pyre