Is It Dangerous to Inhale Human Remains?
Slate's recent repost of a still topical (Tupac-al?) article from 2007:
Is It Dangerous to Inhale Human Remains?
Tupac's former bandmates say they smoked his ashes.
By Torie Bosch
Posted Friday, April 6, 2007, at 1:02 PM ET
Members of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz, announced last month that they'd sprinkled Shakur's ashes into a marijuana joint and smoked it in his honor after his murder in 1996. The story brings to mind Keith Richards' 2007 claim to have snorted his father's ashes with cocaine. The article below, first published four years ago, goes through the possible health consequences of inhaling cremated remains.
Earlier this week, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones announced that he once snorted a mixture of his father's ashes and cocaine. Richards and his publicist later claimed that he was just kidding. But if he did snort his dad, would that have been unhealthy?
Only if he made a habit of it....
Members of Tupac Shakur's rap group, the Outlawz, announced last month that they'd sprinkled Shakur's ashes into a marijuana joint and smoked it in his honor after his murder in 1996. The story brings to mind Keith Richards' 2007 claim to have snorted his father's ashes with cocaine. The article below, first published four years ago, goes through the possible health consequences of inhaling cremated remains.
Earlier this week, Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones announced that he once snorted a mixture of his father's ashes and cocaine. Richards and his publicist later claimed that he was just kidding. But if he did snort his dad, would that have been unhealthy?
Only if he made a habit of it....
posted by Charles_C @ 5:01 PM
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