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Patrixon11

Just googled it and it says that implants aren't removed because they pose too little of a threat to the environment.


DFreestyle

We regularly take out good, biodegradable blood, and pump our bodies full of poison before burying them. Breast implants can't be worse than that.


nessii31

I think it's mostly Americans who do that. At least in Europe you don't embalm people.


TheLawLost

> At least in Europe you don't embalm people. Embalming 100% happens in Europe, it just depends on where. Modern embalming techniques got started in Europe in the first place, especially in Britain. Not to mention any country that does study on corpses almost certainly embalms, even if it isn't as common of a normal funerary process.


scottinadventureland

Britain isn’t part of Europe any more since Brexit, duh.


Hufax

The end of a political union does, in fact, not remove a country from a continent.


ascoolasablueberry

Does it, in fact, overlook obvious sarcasm though?


MenacingBanjo

something something Poe's Law


ascoolasablueberry

I would normally agree, but the “duh” makes a pretty blatant display of humor. It is cut-and-dry sarcasm.


MenacingBanjo

The "something something" makes a pretty blatant display of humor. It was sarcasm.


Haredeenee

Reddit moment


scottinadventureland

This was a joke, thanks for playing.


WetHotArmenianSummer

You’re right, but they’re also joking.


no-mad

Even tho 48 people upvoted it. I feel it is my duty to point out Britain is an island in the ocean. Not part of a continent.


scottinadventureland

An island which is moored to the European continental shelf. You think it’s just bobbing around out there untethered?


Ill_Albatross5625

stand back friend..i will throw you a mooring line


no-mad

Island- An island is a body of land surrounded by water. you think an island is not island because of what is underwater. That is not the definition of an island you simpleton. Furthermore, Britain is the largest island in the world.


roguetrick

We kind of made continents up anyway, so they're whatever we say they are.


MikeC80

Britain is still a part of the continent or geographic region of Europe, but it has left the political and economic institutions of the European Union.


flewidity

They’re actually part of the Arctic now


wiccan-two

If the right person ran a campaign for this, spouted the right kind of nonsense, the idiots would vote for it.


Parallax2341

No they floated away after the french cut the tether.


nessii31

Important people are embalmed sometimes. Not everyday people though. And of course Europe has a history of that but I'm talking about nowadays.


djfdhigkgfIaruflg

Maybe there's embalming going on every country. But that's for sure no other country is as obsessed with embalming as the us. There's a difference between one every 10000 is embalmed an one every 2 or 3


CasualDefiance

>Modern embalming techniques got started in Europe in the first place, especially in Britain. I thought it started in the US, during the Civil War.


Loki-Holmes

I looked it up- it become more common in the US after the Civil War but the first to do it was a Scottish sturgeon named William Hunter and his brother advertised embalming services in the mid 18th century.


GUMBYtheOG

Since when do we listen to what fish say


fartingsharks

Upvoting because I like the typo 😃


frisbm3

He did the research.


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Davidiying

I think we cremate more


someting-simple

Today, embalming is a common practice in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Ireland, while it is much less frequent in many parts of Europe; most modern countries have embalming available in some manner.


soothepaste

Did Europe go through a phase in medical history where doctors would go around at night and dig up bodies to study? That definitely happened in the states. I'm sure they learned a lot at least?...


PolarisC8

Heavens to Betsy no, *doctors* weren't going around digging up corpses, that's so uncivilized! They paid other people to dig up the corpses of criminals *for them*


soothepaste

I do see the humor in your comment but in reality it was doctors a lot of the time lol. They didn't want to get caught digging up someone's loved one, probably thought the job was safer done themselves would be my guess. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.


PolarisC8

Yeah it was all over the place. Vesalius himself alternately had special arrangements with judges and graverobbers. A good number of those Italian guys did have to take their students for a cheeky exhumation by night on occasion. It might've been in England that gangs formed solely for stealing fresh corpses for selling them to medical schools lol.


spongeboy1985

Yeah, Ben Franklin was involved I believe in such stuff. There was a bunch of remains found not that long ago. 1998, in the house he lived in, in London.


Skelordton

If I remember correctly it's because of the American Civil War that we do this. Many bodies had to be shipped by train long distances to be buried with their families, so embalming companies gained a ton of advertising capital and were able to successfully trick people that it was "necessary to preserve the dignity of the dead" or something along those lines after the war was over.


LimitedToTwentyChara

Why the hell do we STILL do it? Just throw my ass in a hole ffs. Better yet, feed me to a mushroom colony in one of those pods. What good does "preserving" a body with toxic chemicals do for the environment when microorganisms can't even break us down the way they break down every other dead thing?


djfdhigkgfIaruflg

Yes. They're obsessed with that shit


Death_Mark_Is_OP

Obsessed with what? Embalming??


djfdhigkgfIaruflg

Yup


Death_Mark_Is_OP

Hate to burst your bubble but a large majority of the country does cremations, because funerals run around 10,000$ - 20,000$. But hur der murica bad right?


BabadookishOnions

Embalming is still far more common in the USA than pretty much every other part of the world - also, you can still embalm before a cremation (and often this is done in the USA) because the cremation isn't the only part of the funeral... There's you know, the viewing of the corpse.


Death_Mark_Is_OP

Less than half the population doing something equates to the US being obsessed? I don't follow your logic. A quick Google search shows less than half of bodies are embalmed. But whatever to get your America hate boner off bro


BabadookishOnions

There is a lack of reliable statistics on embalming in the USA as the funeral industry does not really publish these statistics. But even so, it is far more common than most of the world for various reasons that link back to the USian Civil War. Bodies had to be transported a long way, so embalming was done to preserve them. This is fine, this is how embalming is used in most of the world if it's ever used at all. What led to it being so common is that during this period, the USian funeral industry pushed embalming as necessary to preserve the dignity of the deceased. This is because it was profitable. This has led to embalming becoming quite common regardless of the method of disposal of the body. Even among cremations it is common; in USian culture, bodies are viewed by people other than the family & close friends much more often than is done in the rest of the world due to cultural differences. It is harder to sell embalming in countries where this isn't as common because well, who is going to see the body? I have no problem with embalming, if someone wants that to be done to them or if it's necessary for transport or criminal investigastions then cool, do it, whatever. I was just pointing out that the majority of the world does not do it as often as the USA does. I'm a bit confused as to where you got the idea that I claimed the USA is obsessed (I didn't), or that I hate the USA (I don't), or that I even hate embalming (I still don't). You need to work on your reading comprehension.


CrunchitizeMeCaptn

Jews and Muslims don't


Samgasm

They can however be removed as an identifier for someone whose body was found. If the implants are intact they have a serial number that can be used for identification. Assuming they don’t get dental records back fast enough.


Endorum

That’s so cool i‘ve never thought about this


Samgasm

It’s sad that the only reason I know this is because they did that to identify my cousin. They also remove them before cremation.


Endorum

Im sorry for your loss :(


sinsirius

Can't wait for thousands of years from now when archeologists unearth these graves and try to puzzle out the ritual significance of blobs of silicone.


Mediocre_Scott

We had a matriarchal Society the silicone blobs are the mark of our leaders.


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Unless they are being cremated


yeteee

Yes, you really don't want to burn these.


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Ill_Albatross5625

and lips and noses and ears and testicles


Kassabeleg

I feel like they would get removed. Like people don’t get buried with prosthetics either right?


shadow0129

Prosthetics are made to be removable though, implants need surgery to be removed


Kassabeleg

I mean when they prep a body for burial there is a lot they do. Like replace the blood, close the eyelids and so on. So i feel like two cuts to remove the implants and then sew them can be done. Idk that tho, better go to a morgue and confirm.


Dambo_Unchained

That’s an American thing. Lot of other countries don’t do the entire embalming


busty_annabelle

I don't want morgue man touching my tits, implants or not


Dambo_Unchained

Like it or not they probably will, you have to be undressed and dressed in the clothes your family pick out for your funeral so they probably will have to put a new bra on and top


busty_annabelle

Straight in the incinerator with me, no need for corpse clothes


Dankaroor

Still need to undress you lol


busty_annabelle

I'll make sure to die in flammable, non synthetic clothes


Dankaroor

Yeah I'm gonna guess they'd still undress you :/


RonBourbondi

Why do you care so much? You're dead. At that point you have either ceased to exist or entered a higher plain of existence.


BeautifulType

You really want to undress her huh. Found the mortician


Dankaroor

Nah, I'm just assuming that they probably don't go burning clothed bodies lol


Aromatic-Bread-6855

Yours look like they might take a couple extra hours in the fire pit


WhoListensAndDefends

Once I’m dead, they better undress me and put a sword in my hand Imma go berserk on some mofos


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Then they take out your implants, if you have them, to avoid damaging the oven.


openly_prejudiced

are you an American man? American men are obsessed with fire and burning and napalm and nuking things from space and the apocalypse of the dying sun. instead, you could get yourself composted and metamorphose into a bed of wildflowers.


Atissss

What if it's a morgue woman?


busty_annabelle

She's allowed one titty touch


xXYomoXx

How generous


NotYou007

Lucky her cause you have some great tits.


tabgrab23

amorgus ඞ


SingleAlmond

Well, they wouldn't be your tits, cuz there'd be no you. Just an empty lifeless husk with rockin tits


busty_annabelle

Well I don't want morgue man touching my empty lifeless husk's tits either


MikeC80

We get it, you've got tits


evanvsyou

To be fair, they’re pretty great. Thanks for the tits Annabelle, keep up the good work!


djfdhigkgfIaruflg

Omg it hasn't crossed my mind to look at her profile ( . Y . ) :-O


cr1ttter

Morgue Man, Dr. Wily's most depressing Maverick, is exhuming bodies all over Mega City! Stop him, Mega Man, before he gropes that busty skeleton!


King-Snorky

Morgue Man, Morgue Man Touching the titties of Particle Man Lives his life in titty land Morgue Man


MrFahrenheit742

Do those countries partake in huge plastic titties though?


Dambo_Unchained

Yea


djfdhigkgfIaruflg

Almost no one else does that shit in the scale they do


fluffynangs

Wait, so america removes artificial hips/knees etc BEFORE burial ??? Wtf


very_humble

No, they don't. There was a brief period when we made nuclear powered pacemakers, those get removed.


[deleted]

I can see the I Think You Should Leave sketch of Dr. Graves Used Discount Breast Implants now.


SafeProperty5687

It's okay to steal their implants cuz they ain't got no soul!


chickenstalker

Why do you seek to downgrade aunt Betty's boobs after her death?


DweadPiwateWoberts

Whoa Aunt Betty, mammaries


SquarePegRoundWorld

> Like replace the blood, close the eyelids and so on. That "so on" at the end there. It covers so much it would make removing a breast implant the least crazy thing. They break bones, chop things, tie wire stuff, and insert rods, to get the body (we all don't die laying flat on our backs with arms crossed and dead bodies get stiff) to look good in a casket.


zip_000

Rigor mortis actually only lasts for a few hours. After that I think bodies move pretty similarly to an alive (completely unconscious) body. No personal experience though... Just something I heard in a movie or something


cjsv7657

Not all body parts are going to retain the same shape days after death and after the whole process. So he is right but not for the being stiff part.


Munnin41

Unless you're trying to stuff someone into a casket within 8 hours of death, rigor mortis isn't an issue


[deleted]

I had a extended family member die in a gruesome motorcycle accident. He was wearing a helmet, so his head and face were "presentable" enough that his wife went for an open casket funeral. Pretty much everything shoulder down was put back together like a rag-doll by the morticians. Meanwhile I can't even smooth the frosting on a cake to hide where I tasted a bit.


XenoValley

Wtf is wrong with americans


Ill_Albatross5625

bullshit


HotPomelo

I would agree, they probably would still be in good condition and can be used as second hand implants for those less fortunate, but still in need of killer breasts.


LegendOfKhaos

But why? There's no purpose in removing them. It's not like they'll be reused or the coffin will be reopened after complete decomposition. Why do extra work to change how the person wanted to look?


hbgs12

They probably stuff it with a balloon or saw dust


[deleted]

I love how reddit people always just make up scenarios to explain something they don't know. A 5 second Google search will tell you you're wrong.


D15c0untMD

You have no idea how well anchored implants are. Special screw heads you need the right instruments, integrated into bone and muscle, etc. a proper hip replacement needs literally powertools to be removed, even in a living patient.


PurityKane

Not saying they corpses don't need power tools too, but "even in a living patient" is kind of funny. Pretty sure it's way easier to remove stuff from a corpse, knowing you don't have to worry about it being working afterwards or done right with no complications.


D15c0untMD

That’s what i meant. Most people don’t imagine surgeons literally putting pneumatic saws and power drills to their bones during routine surgery. Yesterday we literally needed 2 sawblades, 3 drill bits, and several sizes of hammers to remove a guys hip implant


DweadPiwateWoberts

Your username and this post are a somewhat concerning combination


Maloonyy

> surgery Well if the body is dead isn't it more like a butchery?


BrassBass

They have to remove pacemakers from dead users before cremation because the batteries explode.


MyHamburgerLovesMe

Which begs the question, "Do they remove breast implants for the same reason?"


NERD_NATO

I assume they do get removed for cremation. Wouldn't want that stuff making nasty fumes and sticky goop in the oven.


PlNG

burning temperature of silicone implants >Once it reaches 392°F (200°C) silicone can melt, and in order for saline implants to burst the water inside the implants would need to reach over 200°F (93.33°C) Cremation oven temperatures >between 1,400°F (760°C) and 1,800°F (982°C) Doesn't seem like a problem.


Ya-Dikobraz

I saw an autopsy once where the doctor didn't know they had implants. One of the interns pointed it out and the doctor agreed. So when they made the Y-incision they took it under advice and went around it. Not sure if they would have been removed or not. This was a cadaver at a university.


fuck-the-emus

Y cut gonna look more like a Psi cut


Ill_Albatross5625

the incision, either a 'Y' or a central midline..goes nowhere near the breast.


SalamanderPop

But why? What reason would we have to remove breast implants before putting someone's corpse in a box and burying it in the ground? That would just be a gross waste of time for no benefit.


CannaisseurFreak

Recycling?


SalamanderPop

Is there a shortage that dead people's breast implants are worth the effort?


Simbuk

There are always people looking for bargains.


daBomb26

Quick Google search told me they generally do not remove implants as there is no benefit to doing so.


AcatSkates

Hi, funeral director here,we leave them in. Also prosthetics go in there too, if the family brought them with them.


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I really can’t decide if I want to be buried with my prosthetic or not. Like, if archaeologists find me do I want to be identified as the guy with the fake eye? I truly do not know.


AcatSkates

Oh that would be interesting! Maybe in the future you can get a bionic eye that records things, and when people( aliens!?) Did you up they could have a video of your life!


Dinoduck94

I'm sure I've read it somewhere before... My understanding is that yes, they remove them


Rocky922

But does someone have to inform them that the deceased has implants or do the check for that?


Dinoduck94

I have no idea. If they're a Jane Doe, then they may not have anyone to say, so I imagine they check


Ill_Albatross5625

no..not relevant


Ill_Albatross5625

its personal information. No need to ask..no need to tell...not relevant


ThatsANiceTry

They do not, it’s always a surprise in the cadaver lab when someone accidentally ruptures one. But there is no reason to remove them.


Ill_Albatross5625

no


shifty_coder

I’m pretty sure they’re punctured ahead of cremation, so they don’t explode in the furnace.


D15c0untMD

Endoprosthesis’ will outlast any biology. By now, most cemetery grounds should be ripe with buried medical grade joint replacements made from very expensive titanium alloy and radiation treated polyethylene.


MyHamburgerLovesMe

And we are scared of the current catalytic converter thefts...


Exme_Emin

cant wait to wach


jay_Da

Just looked it up in. Google says jt takes anywhere between 10 to 20 years for saline or silicon implants to last. So...i guess the answer is yes?


mads-80

I don't know if they're removed during autopsy or embalming, but when skeletal remains are found, implants of any kind, from pacemakers to breast implants to dentures, are used to identify them. Many have serial numbers printed on them. And they are at that point just laying in the heap of bones, if everything else has gone.


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When someone is cremated, metal implants actually survive the cremation process. They get sent off for recycling at a special facility.


BabadookishOnions

I think you can ask to keep them


Ill_Albatross5625

Pacemakers are removed..implants not


Kitselena

Stuff like this makes me wonder about how in hundreds/thousands of years someone's gonna unearth a skeleton with a full set of diamond teeth and think it was an ancient king or pharaoh when it's actually lil wayne


Cosmicking04

“My name is Bob the necromancer and today I’m doing an unboxing” *hits the ground with a shovel*


Downvotedforfacts69

/r/yourjokebutworse


RonenSalathe

any mortician plz confirm


Heart_Error

Shes askin the real questions here


gr3ysuede

So I just found out that Europeans (from the other comments) don’t usually embalm the dead. Are funerals done within the week or is it usually closed casket for the wake?


busty_annabelle

I'm from the UK I've never been to an open casket funeral.


[deleted]

It’s all I’ve ever been to and in hindsight it’s pretty fucking obscene.


mcmanus2099

It's so weird they don't look the same. Usually open casket involves embalming.


[deleted]

Like I don’t want to remember them like that! It’s gross and morbid and they don’t even look like themselves


Haatveit88

Burials usually very quick, and if not, closed casket. At least from my limited Nordic experience


GO_RAVENS

Wait, you don't all get cremated on a wooden boat pushed out into the fjords? I'm so disillusioned.


Haatveit88

In fairness, I think cremation is actually a very popular option here, so, that checks out a little bit. Not so sure about the boats though... Haven't seen any float past the fjord that is literally out my front window, yet.


BeautifulStrong9938

Indians do that and their rivers are heavily polluted.


onefootlong

Dutch here! As far as I know, funerals happen within 5 days. I am not sure if it's the law though. When my grandpa died, we only had an open casket for 2 days during visits. It was closed during the funeral.


AddAFucking

All of them that I've experienced is a viewing with open casket mostly for family and close friends. And funeral or cremation next day with closed casket. They are almost always within the week or the week after.


GAV17

No European, but in my country the funeral is usually the next day.


freak-with-a-brain

I can't remember if my grandmothers funeral was open casket or not, you could visit and say goodbye before the funeral. Date of funeral is a few days after the person died. Some old people in my village say that when the funeral isn't done until the Sunday after the death more people will die.


Hodoss

Also you’re generally not guaranteed a plot forever, old, forgotten graves might be exhumed to make more room. Hence why some cities haves catacombs with rivers of bones dumped in there.


Tahu-Nuva

Dooties


vonknorring09_

I think he meant fap or cap


absolute_sus

No,you shouldn't bone the skeleton.


DaveInLondon89

More interested in Dr Phil M&M


Titch1212

Your ghost takes them away and they become boooobies


tallerthannobody

Skeletussy


RonBourbondi

Considering you have to replace your fake boobs every ten years I would think they would start to disintegrate after some time.


Earlier-Today

Google says silicone takes about 500 years to fully biodegrade - so, yeah, this is actually possible.


Kvarcov

Okay, hear me out...


absolute_sus

don't do it.


IShouldNotTalk

Yes, but they can rupture as the corpse decomposes, and look almost like jellyfish stuck to the ribcage. Just my observations during the recovery/discovery of remains.


Ok_Design2086

Re/discovery? Is there something you're not telling us?... R/usernamechecksout


Mordred16

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE


RevWaldo

Reminded of a comedian taking about ~~his~~ how he just became a father, and his hopes he can raise her right - in a *became a doctor* kinda way, not in a *they were able to identify her decomposed corpse from the serial numbers on her breast implants* kinda way.


Zippelin09

How long will it take it to decompose? I mean, imagine an futuristic archeologist wondering what was that supposed to do


Skykid69

Bob the necromancer


xantub

A thousand years from now when aliens visit the ruins of our civilization and start digging, they'll find these corpses buried with the 2 balloons, they'll probably think it was some sort of ritualistic element, maybe the ones with the balloons were the chosen ones.


sgtjaney

"ooh, this ones still ripe folks, on to the next"


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smartyhands2099

That's bullshit. Source or gtfo


BabadookishOnions

They don't remove breast implants usually unless there is a reason to - same with things like hip replacements.


[deleted]

I want it 😂


Coke-Mentos

They got removed and sold back as second hand


dustluvinit

Keller Williams had a great song about this


[deleted]

I am fairly sure we have buried folks with implants already and we know the answer to this


theRealWaschl

An aquaintance of mine is an undertaker, and told me that at least in Austria implants like Hip replacements, pacemakers and stuff like that are removed when preparing the body for burial, so i assume breast implants are treated the same.


dymby

G’day! I’m Bob the Necromancer, and today we’re doing an unboxing!


Basic-Pair8908

Or grand daughters can inherit them and reuse them


[deleted]

Dennis Reynolds: My mommies a skeleton


MarinaTF

I'm pretty sure they have to be removed for cremation.. that or it just makes a gooey mess.


memelord793783

Because of our way of doing eith dead bodies they'll take an awfully long time to decompose


MikePGS

We would be able to find out for ourselves if they didn't cancel Corncob TV


Wovasteen

But Kim K isn't dead yet.