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Vaguely related, the crematorium stole my grandpa's gold fillings, much to my grandmother's dismay.

I feel like an x-ray machine might be a reasonable investment. It's not gonna hurt the body.

An X-ray machine has capital and operating expenses, requires significant safety measures, licensing/inspection (at least in the US), and a trained technician.

That all is significantly more expensive than saying "you hand us a form telling us whether there's a pacemaker or not, and if you fuck it up you get in trouble."

Is that true even of industrial X-ray machines, or are those mostly specific to medical X-rays, where there's a living subject?

Fair point on suing people probably being cheaper, though. -.-

> artificial joints

Would you have to remove the joints as well then? How are you meant to properly dispose of something like a knee or a hip?

Autoclave and sell for scrap?

Make it a modern art piece? Titanium hips look pretty dope

But, for real, there’s companies that recycle artificial joints.

My friend burned bodies in a crematorium, he said that afterwards he would sift through the ashes for things like hips and pins and screws.

That sounds morbid

But potentially lucrative at the market price of titanium