Like if they die with braces, a metal retainer, earrings, a gold tooth, a pacemaker, et cetera.

  • @Lober@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    By this point, Phase II will initiate as the metal bits reorganize themselves into a lining along your spine. They will take over control of your corpse for the following months, synthetically reanimating you. Nothing can stop your flesh from discolouring and rotting slowly, however. Eventually, the metal ennards will absolve themselves of your flesh vessel as it no longer suits their purposes, and control is returned to you once more; although your skin may by this point have discoloured into a shade of purple.

  • rhythmisaprancer
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    Not reallly and answer, but there is a Stephen King short story and movie where a plane goes thru a time warp, and only the people who are asleep survive. The other people are gone entirely, except for the metal things they were wearing or had in them.

    It’s a good one!

    • FavrionOP
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      32 years ago

      I’m sorry, but 763 pages is epic territory.

      • rhythmisaprancer
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        Indeed it is! I apologize for leaving this out, it is just the first of the four short stories; The Langoliers. Much shorter!

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        That book is 4 unrelated novellas in one volume, but they’re referring only to The Langoliers. Assuming similar lengths for each one, we’re really only talking a bit under 200 pages.

        • FavrionOP
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          22 years ago

          I believe that anything above 50-60 pages is no longer a short story.

  • @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    The metal doesn’t change. It’s still there since it doesn’t rely on the host living for existence.

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    My grandfather died with a bullet in his foot that had been there for about 40 years. He was cremated and there was nothing left of the bullet.

    • @bstix@feddit.dk
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      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.

  • AlysonFaithGames
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    So a pacemaker will keep going even if the person no longer has brain activity. So a strong magnet is swiped over the chest to turn it off. Not sure what they do with it after that, though

    • Echo Dot
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      22 years ago

      It’s this kind of irresponsibility that leads to a zombie apocalypse.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      Unless they are a wizard, in which case Death himself must escort them to the next plane and can’t just send a representative.

  • @pg_sax_i_frage@lemmy.wtf
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    We’ll, if the peron had access to and chose, for their future postmortem body, to undergo the disposition option of ‘natural organic reduction’ (also known as terramation, also known as body composting), then Ive read and heard that: any implants that contain batteries or are highly radioactive (both likely or certain to also contain metal) will be removed early on, by a professional, for safety reasons.

    Other metal(, like a metal hip, or bolts,), are typically left in the body, and stay jt thought the internment ceremony, (incidentally a future customer certainly can request that a particular song or playlist be played during their internment, , and several reportedly have opted for specifically metal (genre) music to be played at this point. 🎶),

    and (continuing) any metal parts then go into the pod along with the wood chips and the straw and and oxygen and everything else, they stay with the rest of the bidy the ‘beehive’ through the first four weeks or thereabouts, and through the peak periods of intense heat.

    Then, towards the latter stages, they are eventually screened removed, using a screen. similar to that used in many other conventional composting methods. Any metal prices are returned to friends or family of they wish to keep them, or otherwise they are recycled. ♻️

    The final results of the process are tested by an independent lab, for a variety of factors. One of these is heavy metal content. The results must come back, as a legislative requirement, at a heavy metal cintkentbtahtad below a specified level, before the process can finish, and the terramated remains can be returned. So far there seems to have been no issue with being below the limit.

    Anyway, that seems to be the process, for those that die with metal, and who choose to have their body sent to this particular funeral services provider. (recompose). For more on that you can red more at www.recompose.life , they have a faq section.

    I belive it’s a similar process for other providers of n. o. r services, and(in some ways) for some alkaline hydrolisys and cremation servjices.

    maybe that helps answers the question, at least in some part.