hey can anyone tell me roughly how long it takes a body sitting in an open normal room to decompose? rot away?
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hey can anyone tell me roughly how long it takes a body sitting in an open normal room to decompose? rot away?
It's a bit easier to go get a divorce, someone will eventually smell the body.
Not advising anyone to try it.
Depending on the rooms temperatures and humidity, if it's really tight or loose in construction and ventilation is good or bad, 3 months to 5 years to mummify, 50 to 300+ years for the rest to go away, 300 to 5000+ years for the bones to go away, critters can help it along a lot faster.
Pigs can remove it over night.
what ya got on your mind lol
I was thinking of asking the same thing but then I thought, Do I really want to know :)
why do you ask this ?
No really no **** how long does it take a body to decompose to nothing but bones and dust. has anyone here been in that situation ?
speaking of pigs removing a body, I saw it mentioned in a movie I watched this afternoon, Snatch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terryl
Code:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208092/quotes?item=qt0480491
what do you have left at the mummify stateQuote:
Originally Posted by Terryl
it varies greatly, Terry answered it best ... it depends on temperature and humidity mostly, insects and wildlife will speed the process
i think it only takes like dayz for the body to bloat..i wud take terry's advice...quote[Pigs can remove it over night.]
http://youtu.be/9L0srh-iCUU
no no guys this really happened. the cops say there was just bones . the think he was there for a year or so. just a normal room. the maggots must have been happening.
go and google cjls the wave and read the latest news. this is in my extended family.
from: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070804095320AAabFgu
When someone's heart stops pumping blood around their body, the tissues and cells are deprived of oxygen and rapidly begin to die.
But different cells die at different rates. So, for example, brain cells die within three to seven minutes, while skin cells can be taken from a dead body for up to 24 hours after death and still grow normally in a laboratory culture.
But contrary to folklore, this doesn't mean that hair and nails continue to grow after death, although shrinkage of the skin can make it seem this way.
From this point on, nature is very efficient at breaking down human corpses. Decomposition is well under way by the time burial or cremation occurs. However, the exact rate of decomposition depends to some extent on environmental conditions.
Decomposition in the air is twice as fast as when the body is under water and four times as fast as underground. Corpses are preserved longer when buried deeper, as long as the ground isn't waterlogged.
The intestines are packed with millions of micro-organisms that don't die with the person. These organisms start to break down the dead cells of the intestines, while some, especially bacteria called clostridia and coliforms, start to invade other parts of the body.
At the same time the body undergoes its own intrinsic breakdown under the action of enzymes and other chemicals which have been released by the dead cells. The pancreas, for example, is usually packed with digestive enzymes, and so rapidly digests itself
The decomposing tissues release green substances and gas, which make the skin green/blue and blistered, starting on the abdomen. The front of the body swells, the tongue may protrude, and fluid from the lungs oozes out of the mouth and nostrils.
This unpleasant sight is added to by a terrible smell as gases such as hydrogen sulphide (rotten egg smell), methane and traces of mercaptans are released. This stage is reached in temperate countries after about four to six days, much faster in the tropics and slower in cold or dry conditions.
oh and alsoA corpse left above ground is then rapidly broken down by insects and animals, including bluebottles and carrion fly maggots, followed by beetles, ants and wasps.
In the tropics, a corpse can become a moving mass of maggots within 24 hours.
If there are no animals to destroy the body, hair, nails and teeth become detached within a few weeks, and after a month or so the tissues become liquefied and the main body cavities burst open.
Burial in a coffin slows the process
The whole process is generally slower in a coffin, and the body may remain identifiable for many months. Some tissues, such as tendons and ligaments, are more resistant to decomposition, while the uterus and prostate glands may last several months.
But within a year all that is usually left is the skeleton and teeth, with traces of the tissues on them - it takes 40 to 50 years for the bones to become dry and brittle in a coffin. In soil of neutral acidity, bones may last for hundreds of years, while acid peaty soil gradually dissolves the bones.
hope this helped ya best wishes
Do you really want to know?Quote:
Originally Posted by lobsterpot
It's not pretty, a bag of dried out skin and bones if the maggots don't get to it.
A fly if one or more get in will lay eggs in or on a piece of dead stinking meat, what hatches are maggots, if maggots get to it, you won't have a mummy, only some bones.
Conditions must be just right to mummify something, ask Jimmy Hoffa.
Maggots can clean flesh to the bone very fast. you know they used to use maggots to clean wounds like burns and such not that long ago and still do in some places, my father talked about that when he got shot down by a zero in the south pacific during WWII.Quote:
Originally Posted by lobsterpot
i just can't understand how he lived in the same house with him decaying. it must have smelled really bad,
yep you would think so man, but I have been in places that have a house full of cats and that ammonia piss smell would make you gag and they are oblivious to that as well. I think you can tune anything out mentally if it is a gradual increase