Another Anna Nicole decomposition Question?

Question

Someone already asked about refrigeration and someone named "Regan" who is a licensed funeral director said they imagined she was not in very good condition. Can you go into graphic and specific details? If she's been in cold storage - how could she decompose so quickly? Especially after an autopsy where they removed her intestines and organs which have all the bacteria. Wouldn't that help her not decompose so fast? What do you think she looks like? Sorry -I'm very curious about what happens to your body after you die. Thanks.

To TayLee: No, the Medical Examiner said on Wednesday that she was already decomposing and needed to be buried ASAP.

To Misty Eyes: Thank you very much for your detailed description - but it's not quite what I was looking for. I already knew most of that - but what I wanted to know is since all of her internal organs and intestines were already remove (which would be filled with bacteria, etc) and she's be refridgerated (no bugs) why would she decompose so fast and what does she probably look like now if we were the funeral director who had to do the intake of her body. I'm looking for graphic "Six Feet Under" descriptions. Thanks again.

Answer 1

Bodies begin to decompose at death. Once the body dies, so do the organs, cells and tissue. After her being dead for a week + and in cold storage, her eyes were probably extremely dehydrated and regardless of whether or not her organs were in her, the skin and tissue continues to decompose. Her face may have been discolored and her lips were probably really dehydrated and discolored. The medical examiner's office kept her in a cooler, which was probably about 38-40 degrees, which does not prevent decomposition, it just slows it. The reports now say that the embalming is complete and that she looks okay.

Answer 2

Sorry,can't give you a detailed gory description,but I've seen two autopsies and in both cases,they just dumped the internal organs back into the body and sewed it up.I don't think they keep them unless they want to do further testing on them.
I'm sure by this time,her body is starting to rot,even though it has been kept cold.Facial skin deteriorates quite rapidly.

Answer 3

The body of a living organism begins to decompose (as part of a succession) shortly after death. Such decomposition can be simplified in two stages: In the first stage, it is limited to the production of vapors. In the second stage, fluidic materials form and the flesh or plant matter begins to decompose. The science which studies such decomposition generally is called taphonomy.

Historically, the progression of decomposition of a living organism has been described as taking place in four stages: fresh (autolysis), bloat (putrefaction), decay (putrefaction and carnivores) and dry (diagenesis).


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Signs of death
Pallor mortis
Algor mortis
Rigor mortis
Livor mortis Decomposition

Decomposition begins at the moment of death, caused by two factors: autolysis, the breaking down of tissues by the body's own internal chemicals and enzymes; and putrefaction, the breakdown of tissues by bacteria. These processes release gases that are the chief source of the characteristic odor of dead bodies. These gases swell the body.

Scavengers play an important role in decomposition. Insects and other animals are typically the next agent of decomposition, if the body is accessible to them. The most important insects that are typically involved in the process include the fleshflies (Sarcophagidae) and blowflies (Calliphoridae). The green-bottle fly seen in the summer is a blowfly. Larger scavengers, including coyotes, dogs, wolves, foxes, rats, and mice may eat a body if it is accessible to them. Some of these animals also remove and scatter bones.
The speed with which decomposition occurs varies greatly. Factors such as temperature, humidity, and the season of death all determine how fast a fresh body will skeletonize or mummify. A basic guide for the effect of environment on decomposition is given as Casper's Law (or Ratio): when there is free access of air a body decomposes twice as fast than if immersed in water and eight times faster than if buried in earth.

The most important variable is a body's accessibility to insects, particularly flies. On the surface in tropical areas, invertebrates alone can easily reduce a fully fleshed corpse to clean bones in under two weeks. The skeleton itself is not permanent; acids in soils can reduce it to unrecognizable components; this is one reason given for the lack of human remains found in the wreckage of the Titanic, even in parts of the ship considered inaccessible to scavengers. Freshly skeletonized bone is often called "green" bone and has a characteristic greasy feel. Under certain conditions (normally cool, damp soil) bodies may undergo saponification and develop a waxy substance called adipocere, caused by the action of soil chemicals on the body's proteins and fats. The formation of adipocere slows decomposition by inhibiting the bacteria that cause putrefaction.

In extremely dry or cold conditions, the normal process of decomposition is halted, by either lack of moisture or temperature controls on bacterial and enzymatic action, causing the body to be preserved as a mummy. Frozen mummies commonly restart the decomposition process when thawed whilst heat desiccated mummies remain so unless exposed to moisture.

The bodies of newborns who never ingested food are an important exception to the normal process of decomposition. They lack the internal microbial flora that produce much of decomposition and quite commonly mummify if kept in even moderately dry conditions.

Answer 4

a very deep blue facial has dropped lacking facial muscles to hold it in place.need to go any further.

Answer 5

I assume she is very well preserved.