I heard maggot eats you when your dead in your coffin?

Question

When i watch some movie, i see maggots eatting flesh of a dead person in a coffin.. but i was wondering.. how the hell did the maggots get in there when the coffin is all closed?

Answer 1

Flies lay eggs on a dead body before it is placed the coffin. When the eggs hatch, the maggots emerge and eat the flesh of the dead body.

If the body is embalmed, the embalming fluid is toxic to the maggots and they will die. If the body is not embalmed, the maggots will have a feast.

Answer 2

the movie was not real if the coffin is closed the flies cannot get to you and you dry up like a mummie

This is a basic sin in Natures terms ,and those who get burried like this do not complete the cycle of life breaking the cycle and breaking the law of return (dust to dust),and so end up doomed and double damned.

The morally corect way is to be buried with out a coffin and plant a tree on top and let the maggots eat you .

So that you return to the concept of life something else eats the maggots, the worms make compost the grass and the tree ,grows from this ,

The cow eats the grass the people eat the cow and the fruits and the cycle of life continues and your spirit is secure to wander the happy hunting grounds for ever and ever inblissfull peace

Haleluyah

Answer 3

A body buried in a coffin is usually enbalmed with formaldehyde, that's the main reason the coffin is sealed.

But "natural decay" is basically the body being eaten by anything from maggots (fly larvae) to insects to bacteria. Yes it will happen in a coffin if the body is not embalmed. Whether made of wood, concrete or metal the casket will deteriorate eventually and collapse. That's why when you go to old graveyards the individual graves are "sunken". The casket has collapsed and the earth dropped down to fill the space.

Answer 4

Maybe back in the old days, there may have been worm and insect problem...but that would be before embalming the bodies and burying folks steel coffins became the norm.

Now a days, no...it is not a thing to worry about.

HOWEVER...in Pontiac, Michigan, in one of the city's older cememteries, they are having a huge problem with wood chucks (ground hogs) burrowing through rotting old wooden coffins and making their nests in with the bodies. They do not want the bones in their with them, so they have been dragging them out of the holes and leaving them around.

Some people visiting a gravesite, found tall sorts of bones laying around. Tests proved that they were, infact human remains. The Cemetary officals did not want to do anything with them, because they did not know who the bones belonged to. The Police department did not want to deal with the bones because a crime was not committed. The sanatation department did not want to deal with the bones because they were body parts. I am not too sure how it ended, but no body wanted the bones and no body wanted to deal with the problem...
True story - it appeared on the local news here around late April beginning of May!

Answer 5

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Even the best sealed coffin WILL fail over time. Most new coffins come with a guarantee of how long it will last before the seal on the coffin fails. With my grandmother, I believe it was a 30 year coffin.
Why someone would got through the trouble of verifying this, is beyond me.

Answer 6

What difference does it make, really? It's things like maggots, rats, vultures and such to eat decaying flesh to help keep down the spread of disease. It's God's way of 'cleaning up the place'.

Answer 7

I agree. That doesn't make much sense. I don't really think that happens. I think the corpse just rots and the clothes that are on it, too. The decomposition happens naturally. That maggot thing doesn't sound very sensible.

Answer 8

If maggots can eat through cement, then they can get on the body. In this day and age it is against the law to bury a coffin without sealing it in a underground vault: made of cement. Don't believe anything you see in the movies!

Answer 9

did you ever think when a hearse drove by, that you might be the next to die, they'd wrap you up in a big white sheet, then bury you about six feet deep, you'd be alright for about a week, and then that coffin would start to leak, and the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout.

Answer 10

The coffin fly will dig six feet under to get you.