While the rest of the message board asks meaningful questions I can only continue to pose the rather trivial ones that plague me from time to time like this one.
What is the protocol for disposing of amputated limbs and other body parts in hospitals? Burned? Taken away in truck to a secret location? I am sure there is an obvious answer but I musta missed it.
Of course that’s just my opinion I could be wrong.
Dennis Miller
Practical jokes would be my guess. How many of us has ever, after removing our snack purchase from one of those sliding-door type vending machines, put something totally inappropriate back in there for somebody else to buy.
I figure, once they collect enough spare parts, they build something like Cher or Richard Simmons.
Don’t eat in the Alferd Packer Memorial Cafeteria.
Amputated limbs’ final destination, along with tumors, bad organs and other organic bits, is the incinerator, where they are burned.
ok they are burned…but where do they take them to burned them? I never met anyone that is in charge of this rather gruesome job. Part of my original question was what is the location?..I mean don’t get me wrong I don’t want to go there but I would like to meet someone sometime who could say…" Oh me??“I am in charge of burning amputated limbs and body parts.” I just was curious as to what their job description might be.
And then again maybe I should have saved this question for next Halloween.
Of course that’s just my opinion I could be wrong.
Dennis Miller
Can’t you also have them buried?
One day, Aha, you will ask us about Hegelian philosophy or the gold standard or international relations and on that day, I will drop dead from shock. 
Thin Skin – yes, you can have them buried. In fact, Jewish tradition demands it. This doesn’t mean we save tumors or fingernail clippings (our foreskins are another subject though), but any amputated portions are supposed to be buried.
Sometimes we forget to remind the doctors of this, though. I have a double-amputee aunt who’ll be limping around the afterlife with only one of her removed legs attached. Oops. We haven’t told her this. 
Personally, I’m not sure how I feel about any parts that I may need cut off in the future. From a practical standpoint I prefer cremation to burial, as cemeteries waste space and funerary expenses are absurd, but I might change my mind as I get older and get more like my predecessors.
–Da Cap’n
“Playin’ solitaire 'til dawn
With a deck of fifty-one.”
A pox on this UBB code! Let’s see what I should have used in place of –
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You get the idea…
aha, at least I could figure out who wrote this before I even looked.
Being a hearing person, you could probably call the hospital and ask?
Im sure they agree with what the poster said, they are put in a big oven unless science has use for them.
As for lab animals I can tell you what we did, we put them in an oven in the back, a big one, & in the afternoon, turned it on.
Two words: Soylent Green.
“It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather
Two semi-personal instances:
He wasn’t quite the guy in charge of burning body parts but he was a lot closer than I ever want to be to that job.
Let’s see. I lathered and I rinsed. But did I repeat?
I used to work in a hospital. They had a small incinerator for leftover body bits. One day I had the joy of taking some body parts down to the incinerator, which was cold at the time. Unceremoniously, I dropped the parts (safely encapsulated in a special bag) into a slot that vaguely resembled a laundry chute… I was told that the furnace fires up automatically following a “deposit”. There was no ‘person’ in charge of the incinerator. Which was kind of creepy and disturbing… no telling who or what had been disposed of in that incinerator over the years… then I had another creepy thought… there was no system in place to insure that I didn’t just take whatever I wanted home with me…
If I ever have to have anything removed, I’m going to insist on taking it home with me. Can’t have some psycho orderly taking it home and making a lamp out of it…
handy-
Being a hearing person, you could probably call the hospital and ask?
What makes you so sure that I am a hearing person?
I believe Stonewall Jackson’s amputated arm is buried separately from the rest of his body near Chancellorsville, VA. When I took the tour of the battlefield, I opted not to make the detour to find the marker.
Occasionally, just occasionally, one makes it good in Hollywood. Thing comes to mind as an example.
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
BobT: Very true; in fact, if I remember correctly, his arm is buried several miles away from the ‘rest of him’ resting place.
By that same token, Daniel Sickles’ leg is buried in the cornerstone of one of the downtown D.C. buildings, while the rest of him is buried in Arlington, IIRC. After Sickles’ leg was amputated at Gettysburg, he had it gift-wrapped and sent to Congress for their inspection…
Sickles was not quite right in the head, that boy…
JMCJ
Die, Prentiss, Die! You will never have a more glorious opportunity!
Hospital incincerator, eh? Would it not be way too easy to sneak into a hospital and dispose of a homicide victim in this manner? Quick, somebody write a book.
“I should not take bribes and Minister Bal Bahadur KC should not do so either. But if clerks take a bribe of Rs 50-60 after a hard day’s work, it is not an issue.” ----Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Current Prime Minister of Nepal
Yeah, Lucky, planning a new career?
As for teeth at the dentists, I asked, he said they put them in plaster before someone comes to get them.