how long would it take a human body to deterioate.?
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Depends on where it is - temperature, humidity, insects, whether it is open to air, etc.
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Not more than a couple of minutes. That's why a serious injury on the carotid artery or the wrist is so dangerous.\n\nIf I had to ballpark it, I would say about 3-4 minutes depending on the size of the person.
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30 days until it clears your system totally. If it is still in your urine, it will still be in your saliva.
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You will likely fail.. It stays in your system on average 30 days.  Of course there are a lot of variables.% of body fat and metabolic rate are the two factors that affect the duration of time that it stays in your system.  The more fat the longer the higher your metabolic rate the faster it is out of your system.  There are detectors that can detect if you take a cleansing agent etc,
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Just think where would we be without the wheel, electricity, central heating, running water, flush toilets, microwave anything, Internet for Yahoo answers. Unfortunately, with progress human tendencies for cheating increase also. Personally, I think 24 hr. a day news is the reason we are inundated with things that are none of our business. Everything costs something and sometimes it is more than we are willing to pay.
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It would take a quart of saliva to catch anything.  You need to educate yourself on the risk factors.
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Depends on a lot of things like temperature, humidity, if bacteria/fungus capable of decomposing are present, how large the person is, when the last time they ate was, fat decomposes at different speeds then flesh and muscle and cause of death. Usually, for an unburied body 8-12 days.\n\nAlso you can have other animals (and plants) that will speed up the process. \n\nLots of insects can devourer a corpse in under a week but this may not fall under your definition of decomp. \n\nSome chemicals like strong highly concentrated acids and bases can liquefy a body in a couple of hours.\n\nFor micro organism decomposition (bacteria, fungi, excreta.) keeping the corpse warm and moist a corpse can be gone in 5-12 days above ground.\n\nIf the body is buried it takes longer to decompose, if it is contained (like in a coffin) it takes even longer. "Although an exposed human body in optimum conditions can be reduced to bone in 10 days, a body that is buried 1.2 m under the ground retains most of its tissue for a year" (quote from the web page I list as a source)\n\nIf the body is embalmed it may take a several months before it is mostly decomposed.\n\nReally this all comes down to when and how you consider a corpse decomposed.\n\nThere are many different stages of decomp. These not all stages are present in all cases, for instance you can have external decomp and internal together or just one at a time.\n\n*---*---*---*\nWarning- this part in may be gruesome:\n*---*---*---*\nAssuming a body left untouched, died of natural causes:\n\nPale skin will show up with in minutes of death because blood has stopped circulating.\n\nTypically the internal flesh of the large intestine will start first. Our intestine is littered with rotting/decaying organic matter all the time (poop) and our body is only able to stop the bacteria from rotting us when we are alive.\n\nWhen our digestive tract bursts it will release digestive enzymes that will digest our internal body most efficiently if our body is kept at living body temperature. This is where temperature can mean the difference in days and months of decomp. The body will release bile, which has a particularly awful smell. \n\nGas from bacteria make the corpse bloat up with hydrogen sulphide, methane, cadaverine and putrescine. Fat cells will liquefy and bacteria will thrive on them, the bacteria in our colon (large intestine) will have a field day. This is where the body will really start to stink.\n\nThe external flesh starts to decompose shortly after death this is because we have millions of bacteria on us all the time. Colonies of bacteria will form first in small circles in places that are the most moist and warm (mouth, arm pits, lungs). \n\nThe smell of the rotting corpse will attract Demetrius organisms like flies who will use their own vomit (actually regurgitate digestive enzymes) to assist in decomp with the purpose of making it easier for the fly to digest, and then they will lay eggs. When the larvae hatch it may be only a few days more until the corpse is simply bones, teeth, hair and finger/toe nails.\n\nOver time (many years) the bones will dry out, crack and crumble to become dust, and the corpse is no more.\n\nwww.deathonline.net lists the following stages of decomp.\nStages of Decompostion \nLiving\nInitial decay\nPutrefaction\nBlack putrefaction\nButyric fermentation\nDry decay\n\nwww.bbc.co.uk/health/ask_the_doctor/decompostionafterdeath.shtml states that "Decomposition in the air is twice as fast as when the body is under water and four times as fast as underground."
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Only time will tell....\n\nlots of time!
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without dying you mean? depending on the person..maybe 2 weeks..maybe.
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Can be anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months. Without blood tests pretty quick. Toxicology takes awhile.
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A dead body, after about 24 hours will normally afloat. Because human tissues started to decompose and microorganisms that are human's normal flora(pathogens living within the body) will start to create/form gas. They are commonly classified as gas-forming organisms. When they have form enough gases within the body to bring the body to the water surface, the body floats on the water.\n\nWe have to remember, that thru the process of mitosis, each single organism divides into two every fifteen minutes or sooner due to some mutation. Granting that we'll start counting them in millions, just imagine how much they will be in 24hours.
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A minimum of 10 (ten) days; depending on the individuals metabolism.
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it can sty in your system for up to 30 days but it can also be detected in a strand of your hair for up to 6 months
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A half-life is the amount of time it takes for the concentration of a substance in the body to be reduced by half.
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Slightly over eight minutes.\n\nTo be exact look up on Internet\n\nBest Regards
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#    The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.\n\n# Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.\n\n# The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.\n\n# The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat\n\n# It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.\n\n# Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.\n\n# It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.\n\n# The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.\n\n# The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.\n\n# Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.\n\n# Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.\n\n# When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.\n\n# Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.\n\n# Children grow faster in the springtime.\n\n# It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.\n\n# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.\n\n# Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.\n\n# There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).\n\n# If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.\n\n# The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.\n\n# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.\n\n# In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.\n\n# An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.\n\n# The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.\n\n# The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.\n\n# The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).\n\n# Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.\n\n# Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.\n\n# After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.\n\n# Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.\n\n# The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).\n\n# A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.\n\n# The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).\n\n15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.\n\n# The pancreas produces Insulin.\n\n# The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.\n\n# The human body is comprised of 80% water.\n\n# The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.\n\n# Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.\n\n# The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).\n\n# You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.\n\n# Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.\n\n# Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.\n\n# There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.\n\n# The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.\n\n# Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.\n\n# During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.\n\n# Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
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it will take a time till u get redemedy \nso dont think in one day u will be ok\nit will take about 1 week