It's not like the crematorium was going to hand over the fillings anyways. From the article:
If the crematorium is allowed to take the fillings without the surviving family member's permission, then why shouldn't the worker? Look, like I said it would be completely different if it was family heirlooms, but who really cares about the gold fillings. My grandfather was cremated and he definitely had gold fillings himself. We got him in the jar, and I'm not too sure if his gold fillings are in there and I really don't care.
Quote:The law in Germany isn't clear on who owns residual materials that remain once the ashes of a corpse have been sifted.
"It's not just gold teeth but artificial hips or screws as well," Reber said. Sometimes the relatives want them back but the crematorium doesn't hand them over because the matter is a "legal gray area," he added.
If the crematorium is allowed to take the fillings without the surviving family member's permission, then why shouldn't the worker? Look, like I said it would be completely different if it was family heirlooms, but who really cares about the gold fillings. My grandfather was cremated and he definitely had gold fillings himself. We got him in the jar, and I'm not too sure if his gold fillings are in there and I really don't care.
