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The doctors that sign off the cremation have to provide info on pacemakers/artificial joints and so on to the crematorium
by lucakiebel 4y ago
The doctors that sign off the cremation have to provide info on pacemakers/artificial joints and so on to the crematorium
- landofredwater 4y ago> artificial joints Would you have to remove the joints as well then? How are you meant to properly dispose of something like a knee or a hip?
- jrockway 4y agoAutoclave and sell for scrap?
- lucakiebel 4y agoMake it a modern art piece? Titanium hips look pretty dope
- lucakiebel 4y agoBut, for real, there’s companies that recycle artificial joints.
- Teever 4y agoMy friend burned bodies in a crematorium, he said that afterwards he would sift through the ashes for things like hips and pins and screws.
- klyrs 4y agoVaguely related, the crematorium stole my grandpa's gold fillings, much to my grandmother's dismay.
- phyzome 4y agoI feel like an x-ray machine might be a reasonable investment. It's not gonna hurt the body.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoAn X-ray machine has capital and operating expenses, requires significant safety measures, licensing/inspection (at least in the US), and a trained technician. That all is significantly more expensive than saying "you hand us a form telling us whether there's a pacemaker or not, and if you fuck it up you get in trouble."
- phyzome 4y agoIs that true even of industrial X-ray machines, or are those mostly specific to medical X-rays, where there's a living subject? Fair point on suing people probably being cheaper, though. -.-