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

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

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BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The metal doesn’t change. It’s still there since it doesn’t rely on the host living for existence.

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- Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I love how you get downvoted. The fuck is wrong with people here? So much better than Reddit blablabla and then this bullshit happens so often. Why do people always have to suck so hard?
  
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  - Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Because the person you replied to is acting purposely obtuse? It’s clear that the OP was asking what is done with any non-organic materials that may be inside a person when they die. Are they removed? Are they left to be buried in the ground? What about cremation? That’s pretty obvious to anyone with above a 5th grade reading comprehension, so a snarky reply is unwarranted and obnoxious.
    
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  - Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The real question is why does anyone care if a comment on a comment gets down voted. This isn’t reddit where they track your karma. So who cares. Probably 30% of comments here are “why are people downvoting you” and comments like “i love all the blahblah haters commenting here, people are so fucked up” which by the time anyone reads it, the haters have been long since drowned out by the rational people. Sad waste.
    
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  - RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    What is wrong with people here?
    
    I would venture to say most Lemmy users were formerly Redditors. That would likely explain the behaviour you and I see.
    
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Lober@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
By this point, Phase II will initiate as the metal bits reorganize themselves into a lining along your spine. They will take over control of your corpse for the following months, synthetically reanimating you. Nothing can stop your flesh from discolouring and rotting slowly, however. Eventually, the metal ennards will absolve themselves of your flesh vessel as it no longer suits their purposes, and control is returned to you once more; although your skin may by this point have discoloured into a shade of purple.

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- 13esq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The spirit of comments in this community ought to be helpful to OP.
  
  Your comment is absolutely hilarious but OP didn’t come here for a laugh.
  
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- Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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Harpsist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not stupid answer :

After cremation - all metal artifacts are given back to the family should they want them.

I hope my kids take the titanium from my spine.

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- BloodSlut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  they better! that shit ain’t cheap
  
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  - XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Titanium scrap value is pretty low. It takes a lot of energy to recycle it so new titanium is typically used
    
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- pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  if they do end up keeping it, there are artists metalworker, that will agree to turn things like that into custom arto,if requested. There one in the netherland , I think it is, that offers the service.(they also accept and work with meral that was removed when yiu were still alive, through surgery for example). There seem to be some beautiful examples.
  
  … So, that might be of intrest of intrsst, when writing a will, and to whomever you end up passing that metal to, as a n option, and anlther resin to hold onto those metallic artefacts and keepsakes.
  
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- DillyDaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Although some of models of pace maker are removed prior to cremation, as they can sort of explode at high temperatures. Everything else is burned off, dusted off and returned.
  
  For burial, if an autopsy is required, everything on the surface is removed to prepare the body for examination, this can include medical implants and things like bone halos and cages, though that’s usually only if the cage is suspected to be part of the cause of death, or the family has asked it be removed for burial.
  
  Some things are removed for safety reasons, but for the most part it’s up to the family to decide what stays on the body. We burried my cousin in all her ring splints because she had them custom designed as jewelry, and we joked that “she’d want full use of her fingers in the afterlife”. But some families might ask for things to be removed post mortem because their beliefs only allow for flesh and bone to be burried.
  
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TheYear2525@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Before the human begins to decompose, the essence of the pacemaker leaves its plastic housing (the “accidentals” of the device) and goes to a realm outside of space and time to forever keep pace of the Great Heart for which it was ultimately created. The human, meanwhile, is eaten by worms.

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- Izzgo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That's a delightful answer. My wife, who got a pacemaker this past spring, laughed out loud. Thank you!
  
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AlysonFaithGames@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
So a pacemaker will keep going even if the person no longer has brain activity. So a strong magnet is swiped over the chest to turn it off. Not sure what they do with it after that, though

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s this kind of irresponsibility that leads to a zombie apocalypse.
  
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- bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I believe they have to remove it before burying/cremating them
  
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DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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- bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.
  
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  - 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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  - 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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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not a full answer, but some interesting info about metals and cremation collier-law.com/…/cremation-what-happens-to-the-m…

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spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Where I live, removeable items like braces, jewellery, et cetera are considered ‘personal effects’ and will be handed over to next of kin when they claim the body for funeral arrangements. Integral things like fillings, artificial joints, etc. are generally left inside. There are cases where they have to be removed or will be left behind (eg. cremation), but they’re still considered human remains and have to be disposed of properly.

There are also cases where things can’t be cremated or left in the body. I’m thinking specifically about pacemakers powered by radioactive isotopes. Medical authorities will take charge of those.

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SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Humans from Scadrial who die with enough metal in them may become ghosts

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Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What can corrode will corrode.

Gold or the peacemaker will not. They will only ever be destroyed / dissolved / … in geological timescales. So when that part of the crust is pushed under another one. Or it is erroded away in a river. Or hot, geothermal water dissolves it. Etc.

Otherwise it will stay put and not change.

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big_bee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Depends on whether or not they know Jesus. If they know Him they go to heaven.

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- Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Unless they are a wizard, in which case Death himself must escort them to the next plane and can’t just send a representative.
  
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rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Not reallly and answer, but there is a Stephen King short story and movie where a plane goes thru a time warp, and only the people who are asleep survive. The other people are gone entirely, except for the metal things they were wearing or had in them.

It's a good one!

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- favrion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m sorry, but 763 pages is epic territory.
  
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  - Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That book is 4 unrelated novellas in one volume, bug they’rereferring only to The Langoliers. Assuming similar lengths for each one, we’re really only talking a bit under 200 pages.
    
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  - rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Indeed it is! I apologize for leaving this out, it is just the first of the four short stories; The Langoliers. Much shorter!
    
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deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

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CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They get a Viking funeral

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pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
we’ll, if the peron was able to and chose for their future postmortem body, to undergo the disposition option of ‘natural organic reduction’ (also known as terramation, also known as body cmposting), then Ive red and heard that any implants that contain batteries or are highly radioactive will be removed early on.

other metal) , like a metal hip, or bolts,), are typically left in the body. they stay with the rest of the body thought the internment ceremony, (incidentally a future customer certainly can request that a particular song or playlist be played during their internment, , and several reportedly have opted for metal to. be played at this poing🎶), and any metal parts go into the pod along with the wood chips and the straw and and oxygen and everything else, they stay with the rest of the bidy the ‘beehive’ through the first four weeks or thereabouts, and through the peak periods of intense heat.

then, towards the latter stages, they are eventually screened removmkved using a screen. similar to that used in many composting methods. Any metal prices are returned to friends or family of they wish to keep them, or otherwise they are recycled. ♻️

anyway, that seems to be the process, for those that die with metal, and who choose to have their body sent to this particular funeral services provider. (recompose). For more on that you can red more at www.recompose.life, they have a faq section. I belive it’s a similar process for other providers of n. o. r services, and(in some ways) for some alkaline hydrolisys and cremation servjices.

maybe that helps answers the question, at least in some part.

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