How does a body decay over time to bones???

Question

The Reaper

Answer 1

Insects do most of the work of eliminating the flesh from the bones. Even in supposedly 'tight' caskets, early on in the decomposition process, bacteria naturally present in and on the body before death start to decompose the body and generate gases, which build up pressure inside the 'sealed' casket and eventually break the seal. Once this happens, insects which feed on decomposing bodies (of all types of animals, not just humans) smell the gases and find their way to the body and start to eat it and lay their eggs in it. Once this starts, the flesh is rapidly consumed and the body is quickly reduced to bones.

The idea that caskets are 'sealed' is basically a comforting lie told by the funeral industry to get people to spend thousands of dollars on expensive caskets. All the 'seals' do is delay the attack by insects a few days at most.

If you want to preserve a body after death, you need to freeze it, chemically treat it by mummification or similar means, get it stuffed, or make sure it is placed in a special environment like dry desert sand or an acid peat bog. Standard embalming is a cosmetic procedure which does not prevent insects from eating the dead flesh: it is not a thorough chemical preservation procedure analogous to the ancient Egyptian methods of mummification.

They only way you are going to keep insects away without the above kinds of special treatment chemical preservation, drying or freezing, is by putting the body in the equivalent of a pressure vessel welded shut.

Answer 2

Because we are dead, so is our immune system.
Bacteria eats our flesh because there is nothing living to kill the bacteria.

The only time worm and insects play a role in eating the flesh, is when a body is exposed to the outdoors or air.
USUALLY we are in tightly sealed caskets, so the only thing eating the body is bacteria. Worms and insects can't get in.

Answer 3

Maybe it's just me, I do have a headache, but I don't understand what you are asking? Are you asking if the body decays into bones? ????????

Answer 4

Bacteria and insects usually do the work.

Answer 5

Flesh is fed to certain bacteria, bone is not

Answer 6

When it ages

Answer 7

Oxidation, bacteria, fungus, worms, maggots etc.

Answer 8

good question