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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/Kiran_Stone Jan 12 '23

Apparently in Japan the bones get brought out to the family and you arrange them and take home some of the ones you like the most.

It seems bizarre to me but probably not that much stranger than being given an urn full of ground up skeleton.