Doctor Reacts To MORBID Cremation Fact!

[DimiDzi]

and this, kids, is how lime mortar is created so don't break the walls cuz people were sacrificed to build them

[julzb]

Thank you Dr Karan for teaching people every day with a great sense of humour too.

[FlyingLime]

When my late father passed away just a few weeks ago, I had to do the rights the traditional Hindu way.
I saw his bones, and they were still warm the day after his cremation.
They didn't blend his bones, I had to pick his bones with my hands and put them in a pot.
Honestly going through my father's bones was probably the most morbid thing I've had to do.
All the while I kept saying "this is so unreal".

[SAOS]

Cremains are mostly calcium phosphate. They aren't technically ashes but they're ash-like enough that we use the same word. Not everyone uses the cremulator though! In Japan for instance the custom is to leave the bones as larger fragments and each family member puts a piece in the urn.

[WintrWasteland]

The people that cremated my mums first daughter who died at the age of two, did not pulverise her bones. Mum went to transfer her ashes to a decorative box and found whole rib bones and was traumatised all over again. She also noticed that no where in the ashes were globs of gold from the necklace she was supposed to be wearing when she was cremated, leading us to believe that the necklace was removed and not returned to us before she was cremated.

[Jack_Redview]

So you’re saying that it’s basically the forbidden multivitamin?

[kyetes.]

I guess if you’re in a Western country. In Japan the cremated remains are mostly intact, family members put them in an urn themselves. If the bones are too big the attendant crushes them with a stick thingy so they fit in the urn. I’ve never seen Western-style “ashes” tbh

[endoranddeath]

I used to work at a crematorium. Its quite an interesting process to watch. The only thing is the bones aren't bones at the end of the process, the fragments of remains are carbonized and can sometimes be crushed between your fingers.

[ebonimom]

I wear my moms ashes around my neck in a clear little vial. When you move it, it makes little noises as the bone fragments hit the glass. It bothered me at first but it's been 2 months so I guess I'm getting used to it

[ozbornn]

The way anybody would want to go out.. in a giant human blender

[brittanyo]

When my dad died in 2020, the woman doing the cremation was a family friend. I specifically asked for some of my fathers teeth in the bag of ashes. She told me they were there but I never actually saw anything until I had a friend make a glass pendant using my fathers ashes. He was freaked out because he wasn’t expecting to see a tooth in the bag. I wanted more than bone fragments.

[Misterliteral]

Fun fact people who have augmentations in their body such as hip joints screws plates etc are pulled out after the body is burned and piled until a sizeable amount is accumulated then the steel pieces are taken and sold for scrap

[BoostedMonkey]

"Dad, why is there a brick on the altar?"
"Son, that's grandma"

[Stopthisrightnow]

My favourite joke ever is when people ask where my dad is I just point and say, "In the box."

[nellepolansky]

This is also what traditional “bone black” paint pigment is made from (animal thought not human). When my grandmother passed my family even joked about me using her ashes to do a memorial painting (she was a retired priest and very pragmatic about death and the reason it became such a joke in the family is because she without a single doubt in any of our minds would have absolutely loved the idea)
Edit: additional info- she was also herself an artist (fiber, woodworking, and drawing primarily)

[Polyeurythane]

As a mortician’s apprentice working towards my full license to practice in my state (meaning I had to go through school and national boards), this is absolutely true. The actual name for the “ashes” is cremains, but since that can upset the family we just feel out which name to say. As little metal as possible needs to go into the retort, which is why it’s important to disclose if your loved one had a pacemaker or not (because batteries, including the ones in the pacemaker, will explode and either heavily damage or destroy the retort). If there’s metal that has no batteries but can’t be removed, such as a knee implant, a magnet will be used to pick up the metal bits before the bone fragments are put into the bone blender so that the metal doesn’t break it. I have also heard that there are dental metal recycling places now, but that seems to still be a gray area in terms of the family wishes vs the dignity and sanctity of the deceased’s body.

[terralynnpash]

I knew that, lost hubby in April and got him cremated. Well when I got him back and transferred most of him to an urn and then the rest to a pendant I wear always (Amazon has both btw and way cheaper than most places that sell them). I spilled a tiny amount of him and got a magnifier. They were tiny fragments of bone with blue and red “lines and hues”. But what I also saw were tool marks of a industrial kind so wasn’t at all shocked to learn of the bone blending process.

[OysterBoyo]

I hope that Alkaline hydrolysis, also known as Aquamation or Water Cremation, will be legal and available for humans bodies disposal everywhere in the World and soon.

For those who don't know, Alkaline hydrolysis is a process in which a dead body is put into a machine that use a mix of water and potassium hydroxide, builds pressure and heat to basically speed up the decomposition process (I think it takes from 4 to 6 hours) and then give you waste water that can be disposed of or that can be apparently used in a garden or a green space, accordimg to Wikipedia, and it gives you soft bones that can be crushed by hand.

It uses less emergy than normal cremation, the waste water can be used for gardening and it produces less CO2 than normal cremation,

So unless a person wants their body to be burned for whatever reason, Water Cremation is better overall and it is the more ecological practice of the two cremations types.

So lets hope it will be approved everywhere soon.
I want to be cremated, and I am not an activist for the environment because well, chronic pain doesn't really gives you the energy to do things, but when I'll die, Water Cremation will be my choice (there are even greener alternatives, like a natural funeral I think it's called, where they just put you in a bag and throw you in a hole in the ground, with or without casket or coffin and the casket or coffin is usually just a box of wood planks or a wicker coffin) so I can do something "good" for the World when I'll die.

Also if I remember correctly I'd like to give y'all some tip about normal cremation, especially in the U.S., lots of funeral homes will tell you that you need a casket or coffin to place the dead in the oven, and that's true, but remember that if you're struggling financially or the dead didn't want their family to spend or whatever, you can just ask for a carboard casket, Death's at every corner, so be prepared and Don't Fear the Reaper.

[Tinyflypie]

I was pleasantly surprised when I eventually examined my husband's 'ashes', a little like crushed shells. Anyway I put them into the sea while reading poetry to him.

[lauracarrasco-ruiz]

It’s a shame we cannot cremate body parts in the uk without a death certificate. I still have my left leg which underwent a transfemoral amputation in March 2020. It’s still sat in the clinical waste bin it was put into in theatre. It’s currently being used as a doorstop! 😳🤷🏻‍♀️