In cremation, the metal is picked up either by hand or magnets and recycled.
This is because the bones need to be grinded into “ashes” and they can’t do that with metal in it.
I learned this listening to true crime podcasts. Killers often try to burn bodies but it doesn’t work because you need an actual furnace to reduce a body down to ash.
It can be seen that way. Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees with you. OTOH, it’s a way to conserve cemetery space and reduce the environmental impact of graveyards.
In cremation, the metal is picked up either by hand or magnets and recycled. This is because the bones need to be grinded into “ashes” and they can’t do that with metal in it.
Lead melts at such a low temperature that it will vaporize long before the body is reduced to ash.
I didn’t believe you. So I looked it up. I had no idea how hot cremation was. What a waste of energy.
I learned this listening to true crime podcasts. Killers often try to burn bodies but it doesn’t work because you need an actual furnace to reduce a body down to ash.
There’s an episode of Nathan For You where he tries to test if a pizza oven will cremate a body but he gave up after a few hours lol
It can be seen that way. Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees with you. OTOH, it’s a way to conserve cemetery space and reduce the environmental impact of graveyards.
Sure, but cremation isn’t the only other alternative.
That’s what we thought, but when we asked to keep the bullet we were told it was reduced to ash with everything else.