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There's always the old adage:
"When I'm gone, don't let my wife sell my tools for what I told her I paid for them!"
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"When I'm gone, don't let my wife sell my tools for what I told her I paid for them!"
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What do we do with all our Festools when we die?
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Scott in Bend Oregon
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I plan on selling all my Festool stuff. Except, one Mini Systainer that I will keep to hold my remains. So that I may RIP (Rest in Plastic). 
Packard
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Google A.I. is onboard with that, though I could find no images:I plan on selling all my Festool stuff. Except, one Mini Systainer that I will keep to hold my remains. So that I may RIP (Rest in Plastic).
Using a Systainer (like those from Festool) as a cremation urn is a creative, personal, and highly practical option for a craftsman, mechanic, or hobbyist. There are no legal restrictions on the type of container used, and a Systainer offers a durable, secure, and personalized resting place, similar to using sentimental items like a tool box.
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Did you all know that an M437 Systainer would not be large enough to hold any of us?I plan on selling all my Festool stuff. Except, one Mini Systainer that I will keep to hold my remains. So that I may RIP (Rest in Plastic).
Many years ago, one of my mortician friends (oddly enough, I do have more than one friend who is a mortician) and I were talking and got to the subject of cremation. I said something to the effect that I was amazed that we can fit in an urn. He told me: "Oh no, there's much more than that."
Turns out, the average person produces about two trash bags of ash and bone. The equivalent of your arm is in the urn. The rest is disposed of in a manner regulated by the federal government.
*This is what I think about anytime I see an urn.
luvmytoolz
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I was surprised when I was told that too after my FIL died. The urn is really just a symbolic thing to help those left behind.
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So, we can get our track saws cremated?
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Mine was "involuntarily cremated" in August of '19. Other than the blade, the only thing recognizable was the armature. It wouldn't be hard to store..
onocoffee
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I'm surprised the armature isn't mounted to your wall!Mine was "involuntarily cremated" in August of '19. Other than the blade, the only thing recognizable was the armature. It wouldn't be hard to store..
mino
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This is weird. Granma was in a cremation society /yeah, we have such a thing/ and I am pretty sure this was not the case.
She wanted to have her ash spread, not stored, so mother literally got to spread it all over a specially designated plot for this. There was not that big of a lot of it, but not small either. She was tiny though.
Possibly some us-specific regulation to prevent people contaminating land? Over here you are not allowed to just spread it. Not even on your own lot. You either can have it spread over a designated plot, have it stored in cemeteries /pretty cheap/ or keep it at home indefinitely. People respect that, so I was a bit baffled by all the US movies where people just 'let the wind take it' somewhere in nature.
As for taking the TS 55 to the otherworld, it would not work. Non-burnable objects like metals are extracted from the ash by magnets to prevent contaminating the land.
I can absolutely see it a a valid 'weapon of choice' for a tomb burial though. Maybe go for a TS 75 with the DIA blade? Who knows how is it with sharpening services on the other side, may not be as readily available.
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One of my very best friends passed away back in Nov.2018 unfortunately.
He had always dreamed of going into Space, so his Widow arranged with a company that does this kind of thing, for a good proportion of his ashes to be sent up in a specialised high altitude balloon that had an in built camera.( I'm not too sure how high it went, but she had to get permission from the UK FAA to ensure there would be no conflict with any type of aircraft whilst on it's way up & down)
The company live streamed the event and we had a big get together to watch.
We often joke that he is still orbiting around us all....
He had always dreamed of going into Space, so his Widow arranged with a company that does this kind of thing, for a good proportion of his ashes to be sent up in a specialised high altitude balloon that had an in built camera.( I'm not too sure how high it went, but she had to get permission from the UK FAA to ensure there would be no conflict with any type of aircraft whilst on it's way up & down)
The company live streamed the event and we had a big get together to watch.
We often joke that he is still orbiting around us all....
luvmytoolz
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My MIL was a somewhat macabre person at times, and we have a very large cemetery not far from us that had an open day one time and she wanted to go. The guide took us all through the place including the furnace or ovens (whatever is the proper name for them) and described what happens, and mentioned the usual container for cremation is between 2-4L depending on where it's ending up interred, and that represented around a 1/3 to 1/4 of the actual total generated from a cremation from memory.
It might have been more but I'm pretty sure that's what was said as we'd always thought the body was reduced to an urn sized amount of ash too. Although the term ash would be wrong in describing it, it actually is more like kitty litter or fine gravel.
He also showed a stash of of embedded metal objects, including a LOT of melted pacemakers, which he said sort of explode in the kiln.
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onocoffee
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By the notion that I cringed a little tells me that people probably call it something else in our lifetimes! I believe the proper term is "cremation machines"? At least as evidenced in this website by the premier manufacturer of cremation equipment. I surmise they are the Festool of the cremation industry.
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luvmytoolz
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I totally get what you mean. I must also admit when the missus said her mum wanted to go it kind of seemed a really weird thing to me, I mean an open day at the cemetery?By the notion that I cringed a little tells me that people probably call it something else in our lifetimes! I believe the proper term is "cremation machines"? At least as evidenced in this website by the premier manufacturer of cremation equipment. I surmise they are the Festool of the cremation industry.
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But the process was actually interesting surprisingly.
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mino
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This would actually align. Over here the urns are about thrice the size .. the ash is given to the family in a sealed officially marked plastic urn to ensure no swaps and this can then be placed in a decorative urn. Normally there is no need to unseal it.
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When you wrote 'two trash bags', that for me translated to about 2x 20+ litres /2x 5 gallons/. That had me confused. Though over here the ash /which is very airy/ is grinded to a sand-like composition that surely reduces volume. If similar is not done in US I can see the huge volume mentioned.
Here it would be a huge scandal about 'desecration' if the remains of someone were not 'treated properly'. I guess this is a cultural thing. Here there is lots of respect to the remains of people. Like. A LOT.
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They don't quite hold that same level of "care" or reverence I guess for lack of a better word in most places here. If you opt to get relatives interred behind plaques in the walls in the gardens of the cemetery, the plastic container is about 2L roughly, interred in the ground in the rose gardens they were around 4L from memory, so the remainder of the body is simply disposed of. Other cemeteries here might differ, but I would expect they'd be pretty much the same simply for the financial side.
So long as it's not a Soylent Green type scenario I suspect most people here wouldn't overly care about the disposal of excess remains, although it's likely not widely known.
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