Comment on What happens when people die with metal on or on them?
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 11 months ago
My grandfather died with a bullet in his foot had been there for about 40 years. He was cremated and there was nothing left of the bullet.
Comment on What happens when people die with metal on or on them?
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 11 months ago
My grandfather died with a bullet in his foot had been there for about 40 years. He was cremated and there was nothing left of the bullet.
bstix@feddit.dk 11 months ago
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.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 11 months ago
Lead melts at such a low temperature that it will vaporize long before the body is reduced to ash.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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 11 months 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.
CaptObvious@literature.cafe 11 months 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.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 11 months ago
That’s what we thought, but when we asked to keep the bullet we were told it was reduced to ash with everything else.