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

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

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

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          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

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        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.

          • Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            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…