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11-03-2013, 09:39 AM
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Re: Fungal Growth On Corpse
There's a mistaken belief embalming will make a corpse last forever. Basically, it just makes the corpse slow down decay long enough for the showing of the corpse,if there is one, and the funeral. Princess Did will be looking pretty funky by now.  |
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11-03-2013, 07:59 PM
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Re: Fungal Growth On Corpse
It looks like adipocere. A waxy, soap-like substance that forms on embalmed bodies, but adipocere doesn`t form for years. If it is fungus, then they didn`t embalm the body properly. My dad was a mortician, and with today`s embalming process, most of the time the body will lie in the same state as the day it went into the ground for sometimes decades, especially with the sealed caskets today. My dad was involved in exhumation of a small cemetery years ago. They needed to move the dead to another place and they came across a little girl`s casket ( about age 10 ) which had a glass top. She had died nearly 100 years before, and dad said she looked like the day she was buried ( no decomposition ). However, workers moving the casket fucked up and accidently put a good crack in the glass top. She turned all black within 10 minutes. Sorry so long, thought I`d share that.
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