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[Cobbler]

I believe that Customs will treat importing them with grave concern.

And duty might be an arm & a leg

 

[Morrisman]

I shall look. They’re cool.

Any issues with customs / imports etc?

No, there was some fixed price deal that covered all taxes, shipping, duties etc. I can't remember what it's called, it was offered by the seller.

 

[Morrisman]

And duty might be an arm & a leg

The seller

You’ll be coffin up for the import duty on them

If they confiscated them you'd not have a leg to stand on. Groan.....

 

[Bobtail4x4]

Hmm I waiting for a hip replacement soon,
do you think they would let me keep the old bits?

 

[Morrisman]

Hmm I waiting for a hip replacement soon,
do you think they would let me keep the old bits?

You could try some of my bits, see if they fit, might save the NHS a couple of quid.

 

[BarrieJ]

Can't interfere with a corpse. For the same reason jewellery is not removed (at least in the UK). Fishing the bits out afterwards must be accepted, but as to what happens to the gold and stones, that's the bit I never got an answer on.
For the same reason, bodies aren't removed from the coffin prior to cremation (which seems a bit anti-environment but rules, for the present, are rules).
Obviously things have happened over the years that shouldn't, it takes dishonest practice in any field to get legislation introduced.
Theoretically, titanium joint repairs COULD be cleaned up and reused but I can see how that might meet with resistance.

You can thank WW1 for the acceptance of cremation in the UK: with so many lads having no known resting place there were lots of grieving people badgering the clergy over whether they'd get to heaven or not; the formulated response became that it wasn't necessary to be intact in body to get through the gates (of either destination ). I seem to think there was a guy who cremated his wife on a Welsh hillside around that time that caused a ruckus (I nearly said a stink...) - but last I heard, it had overtaken burial by a long way (and probably a good thing too given the population and area of this small island).

I was asked by the undertaker whether the crematorium could dispose of my late wife's titanium knee joint.

The guy on the Welsh hillside; Dr William Price, he cremated his five month old son Iesu Grist (Welsh for Jesus Christ) in 1884.
Quite an eccentric but one of considerable intellect.
When he himself was cremated in 1893, it was estimated that a crowd of 20,000 turned up to witness it. He was a man ahead of his time for all sorts of reasons.
The first official cremation took place in Woking in 1885.

Dr William Price and the beginnings of cremation

Wales has had its fair share of eccentrics over the years but none was more bizarre or more flamboyant than the mercurial and fascinating Dr William Price of Llantrisant. This Chartist and republican, a man who ate no meat, drank mainly champagne, eschewed the wearing of socks and prescribed...

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Turbo]

Warning for the squeamish - don't read this post!

Another branch famously (as in, it made the national press) got two bodies mixed up, only realising when the crew went to collect the second bod from the chapel of rest. Perhaps from a corporate point of view, the safest option would have been to say nothing and hope that nobody read the plaque on the coffin lid. Instead they confessed to he second family, who could hardly be expected to attend the funeral for someone who wasn't theirs... but then get the first family back from the wake they were already holding, to attend another funeral. The first body, of course, had been cremated.

A few years ago there was a tragic car accident locally that resulted in the deaths of 4 people, including 2 teenage girls. Both girls suffered severe facial injuries and were very similar in size & build. As far as I remember they identified one girl from her jewelry.
The first girl was buried before the 'authorities' discovered that they might have got the bodies mixed up! They exhumed the body & from DNA testing they discovered that they had indeed mixed them up!
Full story here https://www.irishtimes.com/news/co-fermanagh-car-crash-victim-s-body-exhumed-1.789412

What the article doesn't say is that subsequently the families successfully sued the 'authorities' and settled out of court for a hefty sum!
The driver of the car was also convicted of 4 counts of manslaughter & is currently locked up!

 

[mcostello]

Train hit a car, very bad deconstruction of the car. Boss was stuck in traffic. Walked up to see the wreck. Found an ankle on the side of the road. Found out it was His Sister's.

 

[Robotstar5]

Train hit a car, very bad deconstruction of the car. Boss was stuck in traffic. Walked up to see the wreck. Found an ankle on the side of the road. Found out it was His Sister's.

We were doing event cover at Eastnor Park when one of the doctors with us got called out to a local RTC, I got home from the event to find out it was my cousin and his girlfriend in their car had been hit head on by a drunk driver, my cousin died at the scene and his girlfriend was airlifted out. The church was booked for their wedding and it became his funeral instead