does a body decay when buried in concrete or is it preserved as nothing can invade it ?
2007-01-09 23:14:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The body goes and sleeps with the fishes...Tommy, take him away!
2007-01-09 23:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They did this on mythbusters when looking into a myth that the teamster boss(Hoffner was his name I think) was buried in a us football stadium.
They used a pigs carcass and buried it in concrete. Several months later they tried to see if any imaging equipment would be able to locate the body, then they dug up the carcass.
There was a void in the concrete where the carcass had decayed and a really awful smell. I remember people where coming out of surrounding buildings or hanging out of windows holding there noses because of the stench
2007-01-09 23:28:13 · answer #2 · answered by Corneilius 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well according to the experiment conducted on MythBusters, the body decays leaving a cavity in the concrete.
2007-01-09 23:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by PartyTime 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people have a misconception that a body will decay only because of organisms will intrude.
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Things which "cause" the body to decay are already INSIDE US. We already have organisms living inside of us. While we are alive, our immune system keeps a balance when we die, the organisms take over.
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Even people who have been buried in airtight, watertight caskets... WILL decay and you will find LIVING organisms inside the casket (if anyone opens it).
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About sterlizing the body... well, i dont think you can ever sterilize INSIDE the boday (ie. in ur intestines).
SO, no matter what, our dead body (or any animals') will decay.
2007-01-11 00:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by Confused&inTrouble 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
concrete are not water proof cos of the way it was casted
a large volume of concrete without rebar will have cracks
the decay will be noticeable once the fluid leakage occurs
2007-01-09 23:39:35 · answer #5 · answered by kimht 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the body would start to dissolve straight away because of the lime that is put in concrete is an irritant to skin so the body would become disfigured behind belief
2007-01-09 23:25:35 · answer #6 · answered by Morphius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a lot really.It just gets on with the business of decaying in a really tight space.
2007-01-09 23:30:48 · answer #7 · answered by Christine H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you've been watching waking the dead!!! (well if you haven't that's what happened on it. This boy had been in concrete for 16 yrs??????i taped both and saw them last nite, and thought exactly the same question!!! will be interested in some of of the answers!!! haa like the answer about the m4 pillars!!! i wonder???
2007-01-09 23:27:26 · answer #8 · answered by annie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it will decay, perhaps slower than normal but it will decay, unless the concrete is totally air tight and is totally sterilised as well as the body being sterilised
2007-01-09 23:23:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
y cant anything invade it? arent micro organisms gonna invade?
i think the body will decay
2007-01-10 00:54:35 · answer #10 · answered by Deranged Soul.. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we'll know when the M4 flyover in London is demolished, as there are supposed to be plenty of 1970s gangsters buried in the pillars!
2007-01-09 23:23:30 · answer #11 · answered by gorgeousfluffpot 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋