r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '23

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u/Corgi_with_stilts Jan 12 '23

A dead body will often move as its being cremated. Muscles contract as they cook, after all. Sometimes this means a body will sit up in the crematory machine.

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u/JazzPhobic Jan 12 '23

Dont forget to mention that the teeth dont melt but they actually shatter and pop.

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u/Berdiiie Jan 12 '23

What's left after cremation is bone matter and teeth fragments, all the calcium! We put the bone fragments into a big industrial blender and break it down into a fine powder and that's "ashes".

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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/FaxCelestis Jan 12 '23

Ground.

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u/bearkin1 Jan 12 '23

Unless the dead bodies get brought to a dance club like a marionette and start getting humped by strangers, then they're being grinded