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Forms for undertakers have a section where one has to certify whether or not the deceased person has an implanted device. Cremating a person with a plutonium p
by cant_kant 11y ago
Forms for undertakers have a section where one has to certify whether or not the deceased person has an implanted device.
Cremating a person with a plutonium powered pacemaker might be a bit of a health hazard.
- efournie 11y agoCremating a person with a big lithium battery encased in an airtight metallic casing is also a bit of a hazard. Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators add also a few big capacitors to the mix. There have been quite a few crematoriums destroyed or damaged by pacemaker explosions in the last decades.
- david-given 11y agoIain Banks' _The Crow Road_ starts like this: > It was the day my grandmother exploded. I sat in the crematorium, listening to my Uncle Hamish quietly snoring in harmony to Bach’s Mass in B minor, and I reflected that it always seemed to be death that drew me back to Gallanach. Fantastic book, with possibly the best opening line ever, and yes, she does have a pacemaker. http://www.tor.com/2009/06/22/a-funny-book-with-a-lot-of-death-in-it-iain-banks-the-crow-road/ http://www.tor.com/2009/06/22/a-funny-book-with-a-lot-of-dea...
- Animats 11y agoThey planned for that. Those devices were designed to survive cremation without leakage.