like when you see in the movies they're buries with their clothes on while when they dig a dead body up its just bones and no clothes..........where did the clothes go?
2006-10-10 12:41:41 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Most fabric decomposes with the body. But then again consider your source. Hollywood is rarely factual. Most dead bodies are clothed or wrapped in cloth.
2006-10-10 12:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by Oklahoman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's on inside the coffin is determined by the family or the one in charge of the wedding. Funeral directors usually ask if the family wants any jewelry, esp. rings, removed before burial. The family is asked to provide the appropriate clothing. On occasion, there is a "different" request. I remember 1 story of a woman insistent on being buried in her negligee.
Thus to the movies. Clothing is far less durable than skin and especially bones. The clothing simply rots from the moisture and temperature changes. In real life and good movies, you will notice the tougher cloth "leather" and belts, shoes, etc. are still there w/ the bones.
2006-10-10 12:53:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually to tell the truth, and be prepared, when you are buried in the casket you have clothes on, but they cut the clothes down the middle so that they can get the clothes on...its way too hard to put a persons arms and legs in the clothes...and i dont think they put shoes on the people being buried...as far as the clothes go they eventually rot away....hope this helps
2006-10-10 12:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by russ_vl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you ever been to a funeral? They have their clothes on. The clothes decompose over time just as the flesh does. You could as easily ask if they bury people with their flesh on. Where does it go? They're just bones after all....
2006-10-10 12:47:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
people are buried with their clothes on like a favorite out or color of theirs or some thing special or whatever their religious beliefs are. and when you see them dig up the body there isn't any clothes because the disintegrate over the years to dust
2006-10-10 12:46:04 · answer #5 · answered by missaboo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
With clothes on of course. People usually get buried with their flesh on too, don't they. Yet you're not surprised to see the flesh is gone and there's just bones.
2006-10-10 12:46:08 · answer #6 · answered by chocolatebunny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you check out the funeral home you will find they have an enormous amount of clothes hanging in their closets. If you don't supply clothes, they will sell you a nice suit for example. Of course the suit has been cut to allow for the ease of dressing a corpse. Just before they close the lid they grab a hold of the collar and yank the suit off and hang it back up. Sometimes they dry clean it first. Sometimes, but how could it get too dirty?
2006-10-10 13:43:33 · answer #7 · answered by Mr.Wise 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's silly but people are buried with their clothes on.
2006-10-10 12:43:14 · answer #8 · answered by Art The Wise 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are buried with clothes on.
2006-10-10 13:02:02 · answer #9 · answered by ~~ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the clothes rot!!!
you get buried with clothes on!
2006-10-10 12:45:55 · answer #10 · answered by Greeneyed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋