[AngelAssassin]

Originally Posted by William May ↗

They only cremate you in your coffin if you bought a wooden coffin that they can burn along with you. My Mom and most of my relatives got a cardboard box. (The kind you get cremated in, NOT the kind you live in on the street in an alley) They have regular coffins they can use for the funeral, but the bottom drops out, and the body goes into the furnace. The casket gets a new liner and gets reused for the next funeral pre-cremation. Instead of thinking of it as a "slumber receptacle", just envision it as a "quick nap-time containment unit" that only gets used for the 15 minute funeral.

Like the concentration camp guards, the crematory people take out any gold teeth with pliers, and turn them over to the funeral home as part of their profit chain. When they pick up a body, they do an inspection to itemize any gold teeth that can be removed, so the boss can keep track of them, and make sure they don't disappear on the way into his bank account.

When cremation is done, especially when you are NOT fully finished, they put you through a grinder that pulverizes your teeth and any remaining visible parts, so they are reduced to a uniform, grey powder that is easy to sprinkle. They don't want any loose teeth or charred toes coming out in a crust of grandpa's remains.

NOW I’ll have to make sure I tell my husband to yank my gold teeth before my body leaves his sight!

[AngelAssassin]

Originally Posted by intre ↗

crazy how the nazis managed to cremate millions of people with much shittier tech during wartime huh

The thing is, they didn’t.
My great-Uncle was at the head of the column freeing the prisoners from Buchenwald.
They were the soldiers giving people food, and then having to take it back, because people were dying from eating…
My kindergarten teacher was an adult survivor of a camp, with a tattoo on her arm that made me ask. At age five, you don’t know any better…

So, from those two very different personal witnesses to what actually happened, I choose to believe them. Yes, at five I still had the wherewithal to understand the gravity of the very basic story that she told me.

First, the numbers of dead have been inflated. The Germans were using those people as cheap labor to build their war machines. They weren’t purposely trying to kill them, trust me!!! They just weren’t taken care of very well at the end because provisions ran out at the end of the war, and the provisions went to the Armed Forces first, of course, before it went to the people, and certainly before it went to prisoners of war.
Prisoners were dying mainly of starvation, that’s the reality of, what caused, at first, the mass graves, then following that, the thousands of cremations. They were starving.
At the end of the war, the German soldiers that were guards either ran away, or surrendered immediately.
But many things color people’s view of what happened, and information changes over the decades.
Unfortunately, that’s human nature. Unless you were actually there, or you know someone who was, what do you believe?

[AngelAssassin]

Btw - My Great Uncle was in Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division, Third Army. He was one of the first 50 men in.

[RidetheLightning]

Would love to see him wake up as the door closes.

[dreamsneverend]

Originally Posted by AngelAssassin ↗

Btw - My Great Uncle was in Combat Command B, 10th Armored Division, Third Army. He was one of the first 50 men in.

Ah so that makes you the expert.

This type of third hand bullshit serves no purpose in reality.

[AWOL655321]

Depends on how lazy your undertaker is I guess

[William May]

Originally Posted by shadesofcolours ↗

not mine! i'm not being cremated!

Yes you are! You just don't KNOW it yet!!

[William May]

Originally Posted by AngelAssassin ↗

NOW I’ll have to make sure I tell my husband to yank my gold teeth before my body leaves his sight!

My mom lost a couple of her teeth before she died, and she gave them to me in a box, to sell after she died. If you have an OUNCE of gold in your mouth, in the way of fillings, you have $3000 jammed in there. Add THAT to the $3000 they charged for the funeral, and you can see why funeral homes are huge cash generators. There SHOULD be a LOT of gold buried in cemeteries, but you can bet there isn't any really there, because of the funeral homes and their handy Craftsman pliers!

[shadesofcolours]

Actually I do know it. It's against my religious beliefs to be cremated. So there's no getting rid of me that way.

[thetenor]

This is very obviously not in the USA. I worked in a crematory for several yrs. Bodies are ALWAYS in some type of container, even if it’s a cardboard box. The Retort is cleaned, and swept after every case. Bodies ashes are never mixed together…. This vid is very old school….