What do the embalmers do with the body fluids, i.e. blood, and, how long before the body decays into a pool of flesh? I've heard it's 200 yrs. or so.
2007-11-24 12:40:04 · 4 answers · asked by Montesa 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
This is for your average burial, not mumification.
2007-11-24 12:46:41 · update #1
also, I know they put the fluids into jars, but what do they do with fluids aftrwards...they don't put them in an inventory warehouse.
2007-11-24 12:47:59 · update #2
The rate at which a corpse decomposes depends largely on the environment in which it is buried.
A warm, moist burial site is an ideal place for bacterial growth, so the body will decompose quickly.
However, a hot, dry place (for example, under the sand in a desert) will preserve the body much longer.
If the body is frozen, bacterial growth will be almost nonexistent. Bodies have been preserved for thousands of years in ice.
2007-11-24 12:47:20 · answer #1 · answered by lithiumdeuteride 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In many, if not all embalming parlours, the body fluids are disposed of by running down the drain into the sewerage treatment plant.
The embalming process preserves the body for variable periods of time. In most cases, it is good for at least twenty years, sometimes more. When a body is badly damaged (car wreck or hit by a train or...) embalming by injection may not be possible. Then the body remains are packed with preservative powder. This process does not last as long. There are a lot of variables in determining how well the process works. If the coffin remains dry and airtight, decomposition may be delayed for a much longer period.
2007-11-24 20:52:17 · answer #2 · answered by jpturboprop 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not know.
They dessicate the body as well as possible. They remove the bodily fluids. I would presume that they dispose of them...probably in some sort of special way, and at a special location. Maybe there are places where hospitals dispose of body parts and debris, and this may be a bank for fluids, etc.
Decadence comes slowly, if the body is buried "right." I guess it really depends on a plethora of different factors as to how quickly rot sets in. Weather, climate, insulation, protection of the cadaver, moisture, microbes, and insect swarms.
2007-11-24 20:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For mummies???
Don't they put the "insides" into jars of preserving liquid?
2007-11-24 20:44:37 · answer #4 · answered by Daemon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋