How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? - eviltoast
  • socsa@piefed.social
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    1 month ago

    I am about 90% sure my dog’s ashes are bullshit because the bag lacks about $3k worth of titanium implants he had. If I wanted to keep picking that scab I would have totally made a deal about it, but at the the end of the day, the urn is about the memories and those are there regardless of the contents.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      The remove metals during the cremation process and usually contact with a metal recycling company. You can imagine if they left metals intact it would make it difficult to put them in the pre-sized containers. Standard procedure, as I understand it. You could have asked for them returned with the cremains, but most people don’t want them, so I don’t think it’s common to prompt people about it.

      I imagine you meant the procedures were expensive, not the metal itself.