On: Nuclear-Powered Cardiac Pacemakers

[lucakiebel]

The doctors that sign off the cremation have to provide info on pacemakers/artificial joints and so on to the crematorium

[klyrs → lucakiebel]

Vaguely related, the crematorium stole my grandpa's gold fillings, much to my grandmother's dismay.

[phyzome → lucakiebel]

I feel like an x-ray machine might be a reasonable investment. It's not gonna hurt the body.

[KennyBlanken → phyzome]

An X-ray machine has capital and operating expenses, requires significant safety measures, licensing/inspection (at least in the US), and a trained technician.

That all is significantly more expensive than saying "you hand us a form telling us whether there's a pacemaker or not, and if you fuck it up you get in trouble."

[phyzome → KennyBlanken]

Is that true even of industrial X-ray machines, or are those mostly specific to medical X-rays, where there's a living subject?

Fair point on suing people probably being cheaper, though. -.-

[landofredwater → lucakiebel]

> artificial joints

Would you have to remove the joints as well then? How are you meant to properly dispose of something like a knee or a hip?

[Teever → landofredwater]

My friend burned bodies in a crematorium, he said that afterwards he would sift through the ashes for things like hips and pins and screws.

[sh4rks → Teever]

That sounds morbid

[pvaldes → sh4rks]

But potentially lucrative at the market price of titanium

[lucakiebel → landofredwater]

But, for real, there’s companies that recycle artificial joints.

[jrockway → landofredwater]

Autoclave and sell for scrap?

[lucakiebel → landofredwater]

Make it a modern art piece? Titanium hips look pretty dope