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PubMed1991

Isolation of tooth pulp cells for sex chromatin studies in experimental dehydrated and cremated remains.

In experiments designed to assess sex chromatin in artificially mummified and heated pulp tissue, a method was devised that successfully separates cells while minimizing nuclear damage. Sex chromatin (both Barr bodies and F-bodies) is shown to preserve in dehydrated human pulps up to one year. Human pulp tissue retains sex diagnostic characteristics when heated to 100 degrees C for up to 1 h. Parallel experiments on extracted teeth from young pigs reveals comparable tissue preservation. Heat penetration is retarded, however, in unextracted pig teeth in fleshed jaws such that temperatures could be raised to 300 degrees C for longer than 1 h. Heat penetration into fleshed material was further tested by the insertion of thermocouple probes to assess the temperature attained within the pulp chamber. At chamber temperatures up to 75 degrees C sex diagnosis in human pulps from extracted teeth was still possible. In outdoor incineration of fleshed pigs' heads in an open fire, 75 degrees C in the pulp chamber was reached at a fire temperature within the range 500-700 degrees C. The implications of these findings for forensic situations are described.

Animals↗
PubMed1998

The economics of death? A descriptive study of the impact of funeral and cremation costs on U.S. households.

The death-care industry in the United States has been virtually ignored by policy makers. Although the industry is highly fragmented, pricing is becoming increasingly influenced by multinational corporations. This fact coupled with the market structure for services, consumers' preferences, and the attributes of death-care services, has resulted in average funeral cost of over $5,000 per deceased. This figure is over 25 percent higher than the average annual family welfare payment in the United States. As estimated in this paper, the distributional effects of a death occurring within a household varies significantly by income as well as race and ethnicity. The author concludes that Americans should engage more openly in the discussion of death, increase their rate of prearrangements, and seek alternatives to the traditional funeral.

Costs and Cost Analysis↗
PubMed1971

Cremation regulations.

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