Your knee replacements after cremation
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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I think there are a few hips in there also.
HOW MANY KNEES DID THIS GUY HAVE???
That’s a lot of dead people in that picture. It’s kind of sad to think that’s all that’s left of them sitting in a pile.
If I die with a knee replacement, I want that shit bronzed
My mum died suddenly last year. Just a few months before that she had a hip replacement because she fell and broke it. She had just sorted of recovered from all that, and then she died. She wanted to be cremated, and I often bring myself to tears thinking about her laying there and the process reducing everything she was to ashes, and wondering what was left of the brand new hip.
And now I’m on the verge of tears so I’m going to shut up.
Can’t wait for the metals to be melted into something cute and girly for me to buy online
He’s asking $1500… no low balls and socket he knows what he has here!
My stomach just sank. My bonus dad had both knees and hips replaced. After he passed in the hospital from cancer during Covid he was cremated. 🥺
I just got one in December.
Well, not mine.
Why don’t these get returned with the remains?
This might be more r/oddlyterrifying considering OPs collection here
I made a point of asking for both my Dad’s cremains and anything that didn’t burn. I got all parts of his knee replacement, plus some buttons and staples from his bib overalls. I had the idea to take the parts to one of his close friends, who’s a creative engineer that runs a really successful Harley dealership. He welded and engraved the pieces with some parts of the same make as my Dad’s motorcycles, making a really cool, bespoke metal sculpture.
I helped him finish it and we proudly displayed it at my Dad’s memorial party (which said friend also hosted, at my Dad’s request). It’s sitting in my living room and I smile when I walk past it. It even has a couple interactive parts that reference my Dad’s quirks ^_^
Thought it was mushrooms.
Hell no. Don’t short my family my knee bit! Throw that in the coffee can with the rest of my ashes.
I work in metal recycling, these kind of implants are commonly made of F75 CoCrMo. The molybdenum makes the alloy fairly valuable, so we sort them based on it’s chemical makeup using x-ray fluorescence and then sell the scrap to other companies so it can be melted down into new ingots of pure metal with a uniform composition.
I know it’s all kosher, but that box makes me uncomfortable
r/oddlyterrifying
They probably get recycled cause United Health Care won’t cover new ones.
that is interesting, in a morbid kinda way.
Wasn’t this classified information? A knee d to know basis
Jesus, was that a millipede
Damn, y’all out here getting knee replacements AFTER being cremated?!
My boyfriend does cremations there’s a lot of cool shit to see in some people. I’m sorry if that is morbid.
Lots of hip replacements in there too. Do the cremationists have to manually remove these before the bones are ground to dust?
That feeling when you had knee surgery
They will probably recycle them and use them in a playground somewhere
When I had my hips replaced, I asked the doctor if I could have one for a gearshift handle! I couldn’t get it.
I think its a box full of scrap titanium. Worth some coin.
God that’s depressing
Do you just… keep them?
I hope that’s at least a years collection 😲
I’d love to forge stuff out of that!
Talk about metal^2
Ah so that’s how funeral homes also rip people off.
Asking $2k per set. No low ballers. Those are sold separately.
Yo, I’m high and thought this was an extra mushroom pizza at first.
My sleepy ass read “your leprechauns after cremation”.
Imagine Wolverine’s adamantium after cremation
With a photo like that, one may imagine the owners of the crematorium were obsessively collecting knee replacements, even if they weren’t obsessively going after old people with knee replacements.
I’ve had both hips and both knees replaced, I’m 43, after I’m cremated I’m going to have someone make a sculpture with all my metal parts and give it to a friend.
Fake knees.