Skullduggery at crematoria

My family and I are firm believers in cremation as an appropriate body disposal method, so I was quite dismayed to encounter this report at the BBC:

In just two years, the six workers at a crematorium in Nuremberg earned more than £100,000 by selling gold teeth to a local jeweller.

Under German law, they could not be charged with theft because the gold was not said to belong to anyone after the process of cremation...

More at the link.