Funeral workers collect gold teeth from the crematorium to cast into ingots

According to SCMP, the unnamed funeral home employee is from Saraburi province, central Thailand, and has worked at a cemetery for many years.

Recently, a man caused a stir when he revealed that he collected the gold teeth of the deceased left in the ashes after cremation, melted them down to cast into small gold bars.

Nhan vien tang le gom rang vang tu lo hoa tang duc thanh thoi — Funeral workers collect the deceased's gold teeth and cast them into small pieces of gold. Photo: TikTok.

According to Thai news agency The Thaiger , this man recently brought more than 10 small pieces of gold to a local gold shop for testing and evaluation.

The man claimed that all the gold was “taken legally with the permission of the families of the deceased”. He added that he planned to use part of the proceeds to make merit on behalf of the deceased.

The incident came to light on April 25 after the gold shop owner, Namo, posted a video on social media. In the video, Namo used a device to test each piece of gold the man brought in and confirmed that all of it was real gold.

According to this funeral home staff, after cremation, the remains often contain ashes, bone fragments and sometimes even gold teeth . Most families do not want to keep the gold and will give it to the funeral home staff.

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