i am not planning to participate in any of those “would you engage in cannibalism if (hypothetical scenario)” polls

not because i have anything against them exactly, but ‘cause

1. I’m mostly vegetarian
2. didn’t even really like most meat back when I used to eat it
3. and am also a Diogenes-level definition troll, and therefore I’ve got enough on my plate just trying to figure out if it’s even possible to not be a cannibal in this world

so, here’s my own discussion question:

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Imagine I died a hundred years ago and was cremated.  All of the matter that would typically be released into the atmosphere from burning a dead body was released. The rest was reduced to ashes.

You, a person living a hundred years later, want to avoid consuming (eating, drinking or inhaling) any of my remains.

Is this possible?

And, if the answer depends on factors such as

• where I died
• where you currently are
• what happened to my ashes
• whether “my remains” include only atoms that were present in my dead body, or also include all atoms that were part of my body at any time during my life
• whether combination of atoms into different molecules, or fission into subatomic particles, affects the definition of being “part of my remains”
• how large I was at time of death
• how old I was at time of death (and thus how many times most of the matter in my body had already been replaced and returned into the communal pool of matter)
• details of how my body was burned 

…then, what would need to be known about each of these factors, in order to reach an answer?

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discuss.

(no I’m not doing a poll. polls are too limited for my Diogenes-level definition troll brain.)