prepstudinsc: I am a mortician, so I hear about all sorts of goofball things people try to do as part of "memorialization." I've read articles and seen brochures on companies that take cremated remains and mix them with clay and make windchimes; I've seen the company that takes cremated remains, heats them up to all sorts of temperatures and uses pressure and creates diamonds; but this is a whole new level of wierdness. Personally, I think it's mutilating a body. We don't (despite the rumors out there) break the legs or the neck of our bodies. We don't (or at least I don't and I know that none of my embalmer firends, do, either) steal fillings out of peoples' mouths. I would never cut off a part of a body that has been entrusted to my care. I think it's unethical as well as being twisted. I don't know of any other funeral director who would do it, either. I really hope that this is a joke, because if it's not, it's not only illegal, it is just plain sick!