Why do dead bodies stink if kept for long ?

Answer 1

Cos all the Functionings inside get stucked, no Blood Circulation, no Breath body becomes Colder and then start Stinking

Answer 2

The human body is full of bacteria. The entire digestive tract from the mouth to the anus, the ears, nose and all other openings of the body play host to a wide variety of bacteria, fungii and viruses. It is said that the total number of microorganisms hosted by the human body is many times more than the total number of cells in the body.GOD has created these creatures to clean up everything and so it is their duty to break down materials including the human body.

While one is alive these "Paying Guests' cannot interfere with the body's defences. But once life goes out , the body's defensive mechanism stops functioning and our paying guests come out in their true character and start their foul work which is often very smelly.

I called them Paying Guests because they normally do a good lot of work by making vitamins and a host of chemicals useful for the maintenance of a healthy body. When the body is dead they still do good work by getting rid of the body which hosted them so long but in the process some smelly chemicals are produced.

If the body is kept cool as for example, in a mortuary, the activity of the micro organisms is very low and so the body remains without decomposition for a much longer time.

Answer 3

human bodies are an excellent source of food for a vast array of bacteria, microbes and parasites. While alive the immune system fights them off, so the bact. etc procreate at a high rate, expecting to lose a lot of the population. once a human dies, the high rate of procreation goes unchecked. the bacteria et al start consuming the body reproducing like crazy. the waste material of these microbes are high in organic compounds like methane, sulfides, etc. so fairly quickly (a few days) there are so many microorganisms feeding on the body that there is enough waste material to offend our noses.
in order to keep the smell down the microorganisms have to be controlled. This can be done by freezing, or adding lye or salts or formaldehyde etc. which kill the organisms.

Answer 4

What happens after death?

Everybody will die, that is one thing that we are absolutely certain of. What exactly is death, and what happens in the time after death? From a biological point of view, death is a process, not an event. This is because the different tissues and organs in a living body dies at different rates. We can divide death into somatic death and cellular death. Somatic death is when the individual is not longer a unit of society, because he is irreversibly unconscious, and unaware of himself and the world.

Stage Description
Initial Decay -:The cadaver appears fresh externally but is decomposing internally due to the activities of bacteria, protozoa and nematodes present in the animal before death

Putrefaction :- The cadaver is swollen by gas produced internally, accompanied by odour of decaying flesh

Black putrefaction:- Flesh of creamy consistency with exposed parts black. Body collapses as gases escape. Odour of decay very strong

Butyric fermentation :- Cadaver drying out. Some flesh remains at first, and cheesy odour develops. Ventral surface mouldy from fermentation

Dry decay ;- Cadaver almost dry; slow rate of decay

Answer 5

Their organ tissue begins to rot away. It's like leaving a pumpkin in an area for a while. When people usually want to preserve a corpse, they put them in cold places, and lather the body with preservatives.

Answer 6

cause it rots, and smells like Rosie o donnell's breath.