# Alternative to Cremation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-cremation/594690>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-cremation/594690 "2011-08-30T23:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Doughnut\_Thief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Doughnut_Thief)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-cremation/594690/21 "2011-08-31T23:56:41Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> How about Explodification? I’d blow up real good.

That’s one way to go out with a bang. Waka waka waka

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alternative-to-cremation/594690/22 "2011-09-01T01:47:07Z")

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My mother always told us that she had a sizeable amount of gold in her teeth, and it was to be salvaged. Ha. I even went to a dental school to try to get someone to remove the gold. The mortuary wouldn’t do it. Her personal dentist wanted $150 A TOOTH to take care of it. Yeah, right. That was more than the actual gold was worth. We were told that an unscrupulous crematory employee most likely pocketed the gold. I laughed. Momma definitely would have preferred to have someone STEAL the gold than to have it wasted by being ground up with the “cremains.”

So, good luck finding a dentist who will remove teeth with mercury fillings.

Logically, cremation makes sense, but the thought of it just creeps me out. And I read about that liquefication. Your body is essentially being turned into soup.

No thanks.

A plain box, even cardboard, with a marker over my grave that says, “She was here. She mattered, we loved her.” That will suit me fine.  
~VOW

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