A long-serving funeral home worker in Thailand has caused shock online after revealing that he collected gold teeth left behind in ashes after cremations and melted them down into gold bars.
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The unidentified man is from Saraburi province in central Thailand and has worked in a graveyard for many years.
The site is where many Thai-Chinese families bury their dead.
Recently, the worker took more than 10 small gold nuggets to a local gold shop for testing and appraisal, according to the Thai news outlet The Thaiger.
He said that the gold pieces had been collected from the cremated remains of the deceased throughout his working life
The man insisted that all the gold was “legally obtained with the full knowledge and consent of the families”, adding that he intended to use part of the proceeds to make merit on behalf of the deceased.
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