• WoahWoah@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Basically, you can’t be sure. More of a problem with pets. When I had a pet cremated, they sent a video of the entire process up to and including them putting the ashes into the container. I was kind of like wtf? And they said I didn’t have to watch it, and they were happy to not give me the video, but that people were often concerned about just getting random ashes and that it was apparently common for some places to just cremate multiple pets and then dole out ashes to various containers, so they started videoing the entire process for each person so they could be assured they were getting their own pets ashes.

    Seemed a little overboard to me, but I also didn’t realize it was happening so often.

    There are much more stringent policies in place for human cremation, including the use of identification disks that don’t burn, etc. But, frankly, if someone wanted to, you could still end up with different or mixed remains, but I don’t really see that being likely for human remains.

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      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.

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        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.