what will a dead body look like after being dead since 1926?

Answer 1

That depends upon the conditions that the body was prepared for burial, humidity, body chemistry, and other factors.


There are corpses 100's-1000's of years old that still have skin, hair, and internal organs.

Answer 2

That would depend on how it was preserved... if it was just lying out in the open, there would be naught but bones. If it was in a big jar of formaldehyde it would look much like it did in 1926.

Answer 3

William is right, it depends entirely on how/why the person died, and what happened to their body next; mummified bodies of people that died thousands of years ago still look just like bodies! But someone who drowned a year ago and whose body remained in the water would have dissolved or been eaten completely away by now, except perhaps for their bones...

You might enjoy reading a book called "Stiff" by a wonderful science author called Mary Roach; it's everything you ever wanted to know about what happens to bodies "afterwards"...

Answer 4

Are you a serial killer wondering if you could presereve the body for so long that it would look completely different and the cops wouldn't think that that body is the same as the one you killed because it was rotting and gross?

Answer 5

Depends; Is it in a casket and buried underground? Is it stuffed and exhibiting in a museum? Chances of it having been imbombed and in the ground also depend on the condition of the body before its death.

Answer 6

well, probably the skin will have rotted away and the bones would be a brownish color. The clothes would be kinda there.

Answer 7

er...unless it was preserved somehow, such as by being frozen, it'll look like a skeleton

Answer 8

bones

Answer 9

dead









Where have you kept it?