To be completely honest I've always struggled with depression and one of the things keeping me here is I wouldn't want to put having to find me like that on anyone.
When I lived in an apartment, a neighbor of mine a few buildings over took his own life. They found him after almost a whole week when his boss requested a welfare check. The maintenance guy who unlocked the door for the police took a week off work because he was so traumatized by the sight of my neighbor’s decomposing body. Keep fighting, friend. ❤️🩹🫂
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I'm not sure if I'm already desensitized to seeing these bodies because of how many zombie movies I've watched, but it definitely doesn't shock me anymore. The smell, though, is a different story I know for sure my nose wouldn't be able to handle it.
Once you have smelled a decomposing corpse or worse, a floater (decomposing corpse in water for a long period of time), the stench never leaves you.
This is not an exaggeration.
I am not embarrassed to say I broke down attending to my first case involving an infant.
Of course, we let the paramedics do the work (to pronounce) but it was difficult for me to cuff the family member who was directly involved in the incident.
I honestly have never smelled any of what you've mentioned. My nose is sensitive to those, but I could brave myself to try to smell one if given the chance, though I wouldn’t want it to be from a family relative
A lot of people who’ve shared their experience of what a rotting corpse smells like have one thing in common, and you’re definitely right, it's the stench never leaves you. That particular smell is something you’ll never forget, which kinda ticks my curiosity since I’m a frequent here on this sub.
It must have been an adventure for you when you were a cop, handling cases like that.
It’s not a smell or a sight that you want to experience. You might have some morbid curiosity and think that you will be all good from looking at pictures on the internet but real life is real. Especially when you’re the one that has to remove the deceased. It’s not something you ever forget and it can take literal days to get the smell out of your nose
Indeed, had plenty of adventures and wild experiences.
I’d describe the stench as the most foul smelling I have ever encountered on the face of this earth.
Even poop or the worst piles of rotten food or rubbish can’t even come close to it.
The stench stings yet lingers.
It permeates your clothes yet manages to even ensconce your tongue and it’s as if you were imbibing it.
For floaters, there is a distinct fishy bitterness which follows the stench and a certain jellylike texture to the smell (usually due to the eyeballs and brain matter).
For skydivers (suicide from height), brain matter adds to the smell with a certain pungent yet sweet smelling in a weird bloodied scent.
For hangers (suicide by rope), pee and poo is also added to the mix but it’s manageable. Stomach matter (intestines etc.) can also deliver a kick to the nostrils.
You get used to it after a while and stop puking but trust me, the stench never leaves you and I can recognise the stinging scent a mile away.
There’s a podcast called Mother Knows Death run by a pathologists assistant (mrs_angemi on insta) and her daughter. I’ve not listened for a while but I’m sure they plus these products that are similar to lip balm but very heavily scented for those who work in smelly environments like morgues. Probably they have pockets full of smellies to sniff when they need to (I certainly would). Are scented face masks a thing?
I truly was but hey, it’s the Internet. Why should you believe me? Feel free to check my comment history then.
I’ve been here on Reddit for 18 years and have no reason to lie.
there's something about the extreme distortion of the face the bloating causes that I hate to look at, which I have never seen depicted in any zombie movie ever, and I think they would be more scary if they did. zombies usually go for the subtractive decay look, but the puffiness, distended features, bulging eyes and tongue, yeesh that's more perturbing in my opinion
That's exactly what I was gonna say. Zombie movies always depict the active decay and advanced decay stages of decomposition. Never seen any that depicted the bloat stage, which is the most disturbing imo.
Not my first time seeing those too here, especially in cases of drowning. I only made the reference to zombies in movies because it's the closest thing I know to how dead people are irl if the manner of death wasn't brutal.
If there's something I’m really not comfortable staring at are the cases of extreme face or body distortion that covers stuff like brutal motor accidents or human mistakes where people ended up dying in machines. There are tons of examples here on this sub and some almost unidentifiable
I used to have a client whose business was disposing of animal carcasses. His HQ was isolated in the countryside and I still 20 years later remember that sweet disgusting stench I had to endure every time I had to go see him. Workers there had special bonuses and conditions to compensate this environment. I can’t even imagine how worse a body would be..
I just don’t want to rot without any purpose or reconnecting with the earth in some way. I’d like to be buried not in a coffin, no embalming and have a tree planted above my grave. That way my body will be utilized like every other creature who dies a natural death in nature. I’d like to be a part of that cycle. I have no idea if that’s legal (probably not) but for me it’s ideal for my body to be used to create new life.
I don’t think so, you’re loaded with embalming fluid and in a casket. Maybe fluids are escaping but that’s about it. I’d like to skip all of that and just have my body put in the ground without the toxic chemicals that don’t allow anything to grow.
Oh right, we have different burial practices here, the dead rarely if ever get embalmed and no open casket funerals, maybe viewings before the actual funeral
it is the tongue. Decomposition as it best. It is even worse for people who hang themselves by rope (eyes, tongue , feaces are pushed out due to pressure)
If it had been an electric shock, her body should have convulsed, and then the body would have been lying with its limbs extended and on its back or stomach. Instead, at the moment of death, she was lying in a relaxed position. But judging by the position of her left hand, she had a headache. Perhaps she overdosed on the painkillers.
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To be completely honest I've always struggled with depression and one of the things keeping me here is I wouldn't want to put having to find me like that on anyone.
When I lived in an apartment, a neighbor of mine a few buildings over took his own life. They found him after almost a whole week when his boss requested a welfare check. The maintenance guy who unlocked the door for the police took a week off work because he was so traumatized by the sight of my neighbor’s decomposing body. Keep fighting, friend. ❤️🩹🫂
Watching pictures of corpses on Reddit annihilated my suicidal ideation.
Watching stuff like eyeblech and other stuff stopped me making my motorbike licence
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I get it
Totally valid
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A maid will have to find you
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I'm not sure if I'm already desensitized to seeing these bodies because of how many zombie movies I've watched, but it definitely doesn't shock me anymore. The smell, though, is a different story I know for sure my nose wouldn't be able to handle it.
You are absolutely correct about the smell.
Once you have smelled a decomposing corpse or worse, a floater (decomposing corpse in water for a long period of time), the stench never leaves you. This is not an exaggeration.
Source: I was a cop.
I was a paramedic. Right there with you, but you forgot stillbirths and burnt corpses
I am not embarrassed to say I broke down attending to my first case involving an infant. Of course, we let the paramedics do the work (to pronounce) but it was difficult for me to cuff the family member who was directly involved in the incident.
I honestly have never smelled any of what you've mentioned. My nose is sensitive to those, but I could brave myself to try to smell one if given the chance, though I wouldn’t want it to be from a family relative
A lot of people who’ve shared their experience of what a rotting corpse smells like have one thing in common, and you’re definitely right, it's the stench never leaves you. That particular smell is something you’ll never forget, which kinda ticks my curiosity since I’m a frequent here on this sub.
It must have been an adventure for you when you were a cop, handling cases like that.
It’s not a smell or a sight that you want to experience. You might have some morbid curiosity and think that you will be all good from looking at pictures on the internet but real life is real. Especially when you’re the one that has to remove the deceased. It’s not something you ever forget and it can take literal days to get the smell out of your nose
Indeed, had plenty of adventures and wild experiences.
I’d describe the stench as the most foul smelling I have ever encountered on the face of this earth. Even poop or the worst piles of rotten food or rubbish can’t even come close to it.
The stench stings yet lingers. It permeates your clothes yet manages to even ensconce your tongue and it’s as if you were imbibing it. For floaters, there is a distinct fishy bitterness which follows the stench and a certain jellylike texture to the smell (usually due to the eyeballs and brain matter).
For skydivers (suicide from height), brain matter adds to the smell with a certain pungent yet sweet smelling in a weird bloodied scent.
For hangers (suicide by rope), pee and poo is also added to the mix but it’s manageable. Stomach matter (intestines etc.) can also deliver a kick to the nostrils.
You get used to it after a while and stop puking but trust me, the stench never leaves you and I can recognise the stinging scent a mile away.
Not in LE but worked in maintenance at a hospital and had to go by the morgue often. It’s a smell like no other.
Do you ever get used to the smell? How do people working at morgues everyday, performing the autopsy etc handle it?
I’m not sure how they handle that. I’m glad I don’t work there anymore.
There’s a podcast called Mother Knows Death run by a pathologists assistant (mrs_angemi on insta) and her daughter. I’ve not listened for a while but I’m sure they plus these products that are similar to lip balm but very heavily scented for those who work in smelly environments like morgues. Probably they have pockets full of smellies to sniff when they need to (I certainly would). Are scented face masks a thing?
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there's something about the extreme distortion of the face the bloating causes that I hate to look at, which I have never seen depicted in any zombie movie ever, and I think they would be more scary if they did. zombies usually go for the subtractive decay look, but the puffiness, distended features, bulging eyes and tongue, yeesh that's more perturbing in my opinion
That's exactly what I was gonna say. Zombie movies always depict the active decay and advanced decay stages of decomposition. Never seen any that depicted the bloat stage, which is the most disturbing imo.
Not my first time seeing those too here, especially in cases of drowning. I only made the reference to zombies in movies because it's the closest thing I know to how dead people are irl if the manner of death wasn't brutal.
If there's something I’m really not comfortable staring at are the cases of extreme face or body distortion that covers stuff like brutal motor accidents or human mistakes where people ended up dying in machines. There are tons of examples here on this sub and some almost unidentifiable
I used to have a client whose business was disposing of animal carcasses. His HQ was isolated in the countryside and I still 20 years later remember that sweet disgusting stench I had to endure every time I had to go see him. Workers there had special bonuses and conditions to compensate this environment. I can’t even imagine how worse a body would be..
smh i hate that things have to rot cuz when i die i dont wanna look like a mf zombie
If it’s any consolation, you won’t care at that point
Weirdly, that is consoling.
One of the reasons I'm getting cremated.
I just don’t want to rot without any purpose or reconnecting with the earth in some way. I’d like to be buried not in a coffin, no embalming and have a tree planted above my grave. That way my body will be utilized like every other creature who dies a natural death in nature. I’d like to be a part of that cycle. I have no idea if that’s legal (probably not) but for me it’s ideal for my body to be used to create new life.
I think your body would be utilized anyway, just in a less dramatic way
I don’t think so, you’re loaded with embalming fluid and in a casket. Maybe fluids are escaping but that’s about it. I’d like to skip all of that and just have my body put in the ground without the toxic chemicals that don’t allow anything to grow.
Oh right, we have different burial practices here, the dead rarely if ever get embalmed and no open casket funerals, maybe viewings before the actual funeral
I don’t think anyone wants to find anyone like this but thank god we have people who do this work.
I would never.
At least you won’t be there to see it
What an odd shit to care about
interesting how the face has rotted more than the rest of the body
You’ll see that discoloring more depending on which side of the body is facing the ground, mostly due to blood pooling
Lividity
That face is pretty horrifying thats forsure.
What a sad way to end.
everytime i see a decomposing body in this sub, they always have that huge chunk in their mouth, i'm curious is that their tounge?
Yep, it is ^^
Why does it do that?
putrefaction basically pushes out whatever’s hanging from all your orifices, as the gasses inside the body come out due to built up pressure
it is the tongue. Decomposition as it best. It is even worse for people who hang themselves by rope (eyes, tongue , feaces are pushed out due to pressure)
I wonder if the blood pouring from her ears was caused by the aftermath of the overdose, or by stage of decomposition this lady is in.
I think it’s the stage of decomposition. My mum used to arrange funerals and she said that bodies leak from all holes.
Just tragic. People should be shown images like this. Nobody should have to find a loved one like that.
Actually I've seen this one before and I think the cause of death was shock from mobile charger
my bad if thats the case
If it had been an electric shock, her body should have convulsed, and then the body would have been lying with its limbs extended and on its back or stomach. Instead, at the moment of death, she was lying in a relaxed position. But judging by the position of her left hand, she had a headache. Perhaps she overdosed on the painkillers.
Crazy how the arm is just stuck
Ummmm false? I saw this news a few years ago and it was said that she was electrocuted while sleeping in her earphones while phone was charging
Okk. Well thats even worse
How come her shirt's soaked?
It’s a natural part of decomposition/putrefaction.
Your tissues start to die (necrosis), your body can’t hold fluids anymore and bacteria start to eat you causing fluids to leak.
You tend to….leak a lot after death. Your body is made up of a ton of water and when it breaks down it goes somewhere.
1st image: Man, she's a sleeping beauty
The images right after: Ayo wtf
I mean…thats a decomposing woman. What were you hoping for?
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Just avoid hard drugs, I don't think that's too hard if you value your life
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I probably died like this by the way sad 😢
what
Bad news: your not dead
Good news: you didn’t die like that!😁