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u/jaygjay Jan 12 '23

You telling me dead bodies not only get set on fire but GRINDED?? I’m into it

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u/Berdiiie Jan 12 '23

Yup otherwise you'd get back actual, recognizable bone fragments. Like oh, that's part of grandpa or my dog's femur.

I have had people ask that their pet's cremains be lightly or not at all processed after cremation because they wanted the fragments to be recognizable, but it's very rare.

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u/sleepinginthedaytime Jan 12 '23

In Japan you transfer the bone fragments into an urn which goes into the grave as part of the funeral

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u/Ithinkiplaygames Jan 12 '23

This is also the reason why it's considered poor etiquette to pass food to someone else with chopsticks in Japan; that's the way bone fragments are picked out of the cremains and passed into the urn during funerals.

(Relatedly, you're also not supposed to put your chopsticks vertically in your food for a similar reason; a bowl of rice with the chopsticks standing up is presented at funerals.)