Like if they die with braces, a metal retainer, earrings, a gold tooth, a pacemaker, et cetera.

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    My grandfather died with a bullet in his foot that had been there for about 40 years. He was cremated and there was nothing left of the bullet.

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      In cremation, the metal is picked up either by hand or magnets and recycled. This is because the bones need to be grinded into “ashes” and they can’t do that with metal in it.

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          I didn’t believe you. So I looked it up. I had no idea how hot cremation was. What a waste of energy.

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            I learned this listening to true crime podcasts. Killers often try to burn bodies but it doesn’t work because you need an actual furnace to reduce a body down to ash.

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              There’s an episode of Nathan For You where he tries to test if a pizza oven will cremate a body but he gave up after a few hours lol

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            It can be seen that way. Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees with you. OTOH, it’s a way to conserve cemetery space and reduce the environmental impact of graveyards.

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                Blast my body out into the ocean and let the fish eat me

                Or, I like the idea of becoming a tree, where they put you in a bag beneath a tree and plant it so the roots will absorb… whatever is left that they possibly can, I think that’s the coolest (imo) way to go and would like to somehow become a tree… don’t want to be reincarnated as an animal, nature is brutal.

                Cat maybe…

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        That’s what we thought, but when we asked to keep the bullet we were told it was reduced to ash with everything else.