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12-08-2016, 10:02 PM
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Re: Proof of Embalmers' Good Work Decades Later
Wow! They look better dead than I do alive.  Great post! It's amazing how well they have held up over the years. |
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12-09-2016, 08:35 AM
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Re: Proof of Embalmers' Good Work Decades Later
It is amazing, especially given the length of time some of these had been buried. If embalming is done diligently and with the right kind and amount of chemicals (typical modern embalming fluid contains formalin), a corpse can last a long time with natural features if it is buried within a sealed steel casket and water-proof vault. Bodies entombed above ground often will just mummify or slowly dry out to a skeleton. Embalmed bodies that keep natural features like these examples are buried, often in well-drained soil that does not have significant temperature and humidity fluctuation, which generally means they were buried at sufficient depth of more than say 5 feet. Medgar Evers was buried in a sealed vault at 12 feet! (which is not as unusual as one might think--in crowded urban cemeteries its not unusual for there to be multiple burials in a plot, one over the next). That 12 foot deep grave, with the fact he was within a steel casket and sealed vault were likely important causal factors that lead to his remarkable preservation. If a body is not embalmed competently, which happens more than one might want to know, there will still be purification once the casket is sealed and buried. If the casket remains sealed, airtight, then anaerobic decomposition proceeds, which creates gases and that can actually cause the casket to explode! (This sometimes happens in mausoleums--"exploding casket syndrome). The visual results are not pretty and the smell will be downright horrendous. Personally, I would like to either be cremated or buried in a simple wood casket, buried without a vault--ashes to ashes, dust to dust. |
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12-13-2016, 07:59 PM
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Re: Proof of Embalmers' Good Work Decades Later
Think this is corpse #1 http://www.peterson-staircase.com/el...h_ratliff.html |
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12-13-2016, 08:11 PM
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Re: Proof of Embalmers' Good Work Decades Later
Great find! I think you're right. It was neat seeing the "before pic" and the "after pic".
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