Comment on What happens when people die with metal on or on them?

• CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lead melts at such a low temperature that it will vaporize long before the body is reduced to ash.

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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨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.

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    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨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.

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      • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨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

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    • CaptObvious@literature.cafe ⁨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.

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      • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Sure, but cremation isn’t the only other alternative.

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• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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