
Are you implying that you purchase, used funeral clothing? Also, just where and when does this happen. They don't undress people to cremate them, they don't undress people before the caskets are sealed, plus, who would want clothing that is split up the back, to make it easier to dress a prepped body, because once the body is embalmed, it becomes extremely firm and rigid. (just as the old saying goes, "stiff as a board")But, unlike rigor-mortis rigidity or stiffening, embalming a body causes a chemical reaction of the body to the embalming fluid. The embalming fluid will cause all of the body tissues to become very firm and rigid, and this rigidity will not leave the body in time, as it will when rigor mortis has set in. Rigor mortis has an onset of as little as 2-3 hours in most cases, and starts in the small facial muscles and works its way down the body, until the entire body is in full rigor(stiff all over) normally between 8to 12 hours to reach full rigor. The body can remain in a state of fully fixed rigor mortis for the next 18 hours or so. Then the process of rigor will reverse itself and leave the body in the same order as it had set in, from head to toe. Once the effects of rigor mortis has left the body, it will never return. It only happens the one time. A forensic time-line, can be used to determine the approximate time of death, depending on what stage of rigor mortis the body is in, coming into full rigor, or coming out of full rigor. There are sometimes that the manner of death can alter this time-line, such as a traumatic brain injury. Various types of brain trauma can cause the onset of rigor to start sooner than if someone had died a different type of death. I have seen many GSW's to the head, either self-inflicted or as the result of murder, and the onset of rigor can be really affected. That is why the temperature of the body, and the core temperature of the liver is obtained, because there is a timetable/time-line for body temperature loss or gain, to help pinpoint the approx. time of death.
Damn, I just started rambling on, as if I was still conducting a basic forensics course back in the academy. Sorry about that. Cabriolet.