I have a body the gods would kill for. How do I stop it from decomposing?
924275
Cut it up and stick the bits in the freezer.
118211
Try to find the means for survival and do so until I'm found - dead or alive.\n\nOh... I might also grab some volley ball and paint a face on it.
270273
I think you could only if you integrated the necessary necromantic rituals into the cloning process.  You could clone the tissue, but it would grow as a living creature.  You'd then have to euthanize it and then raise it from the dead.
900489
Hoo-ray! A mort. question! It depends:\n\nWhere on you did it fall? Did it fall on your head only? On the mid-section of your body only?\nHead/face wounds, while daunting, are not impossible. I once saw a fellow with a crushed face, (pedestrian vs. tractor), but thanks to hours of work on the part of the mortician, the person was made viewable. Accidents happen every day but unless the body is in so many pieces as to be placed in a show box, viewing can be made possible. The key is TIME. \n\nThe real kicker is how long would your body be out there in the woods under that tree. Is it hot or cold on that fatal day? Raining or sunshine? The conditions around the body and how long the body is left in said conditions have a huge effect on the rate of decomp. There's the kicker, decomp. If the body has reached the level of being bloated, darkened and fly-blown, it will be closed cakset time. \nWhich is not to say that nothing wil be done for you. Unless your family opts for direct creamation, if there is to be any service at all with the body present, the mortician will still treat the remains so as to try and avoid the horrible odors that come of decomp. \n\nSo, your best bet my tree fallen friend for an open casket service,is for someone to come upon your squashed remains within hours of the mishap. \n\nNow, would you like a metal casket or a wooden one? 18 gauge, 20 gauge? You need to be thinking of these things.
971234
It will happen over my dead body.
1095608
I have a solution which will solve that problem once and for all.\n\nObtain a blow torch, you can probably find one at your neighborhood hardware store.  Then, using the hottest part of the flame, melt the glasses directly onto your skull.  If you do it right, your skull, skin, and glasses will all melt together into one solid mass.\n\nIt may sting a bit, but it will be worth it in the long run.
906376
first, release some ants or use acid to get the rest of the flesh off. then, clean the bones with vinegar. then, have a pad of clay and mount them, sorry, i cant find a website.
512285
You eat really badly and you need a colon cleanse.  Clearly you are putting a lot of bad things in your body.  That smell of death is not a joke.  You probably have some dead things in there-like bad meat etc.  Try organic and juicing for a while.
1088607
****E***\n\nBecause i know ..destruction of this body will not destroy me...this body is a robe which i can change anytime\n\nEven when this body was not there...this universe was not there I was.. I am and I will be
137809
Use a sh*t (caca) cataplasm.  I know it sounds gross but, hey it works!
1090286
trust me, you don't want those images burned into your mind. The body can eliminate bad stuff that was eaten by throwing up...the only way to reject that kind of stuff is to never look at it again. Stop looking for temporary enjoyment, look for something meaningfull and lasting. I hope you take my advice...been there, done that.
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Well done, Nathan!\n\nI don't know what you can do, apart from having surgery to get rid of the excess flesh.  You are young, and the problem might right itself, but if you lose a lot of weight there will be too much flesh left.\n\nHowever, you're great for having done something about it!\n\nGood luck.
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Your heart stops beating.  Your synapses slow their firing until you are brain dead and no electrical current is flowing through the nervous system.  Your body will generally expel any waste matter (air, urine, feces) being held.  Sometime around this time, you will either discover that there is an afterlife of some sort, or you will blink into nothingness, with absolutely no consciousness to be aware of the fact that there is no afterlife.  The body will begin the approach to rigor mortise.  And bacteria will begin decomposing the body.  Years and years later, only ash (and perhaps fossilized bones) will be left of your body.  If there is an afterlife, you will never be able to tell anyone.  If there isn't, you will never be able to tell anyone.  Those who say they know the truth about the afterlife, either way, are not intellectually honest.  Which is why this question will continue to evoke philosophical debate ad infinitum.
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you do realize that not eating will ruin your organs, cause you to be covered with fur, and likely kill you, right? because why not go straight for suicide instead of taking the scenic route? you're going to be a skinny corpse. good for you. \n\nnow get therapy before you continue to put everyone who loves you through hell.
533339
die or fake dead ,so you could jump out the casket and scare the hell outta them,although you first have to get them there.wellllll c-ya
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The skin would become very soft , sodden and tear easily.  If decomposition is slowed down due to low temperatures the skin of the hands and feet can peel off like gloves.  Later the hair will become loose and toe/finger  nails will become detached.\n\nNormal decomposition  would begin internally although this would be slowed down if the temperature of the water was very cold.  The body would become bloated as the internal organs such as the gut decompose first.  Rigour mortis (stiffness of the body) would set in and then disappear.  The outside of the body would probably be attacked by marine life hastening the exposure of the inside of the body to the salt water.\n\nSofter parts of the body such intestines, stomach, liver and heart blood decompose first.  This is followed by the lungs, liver, brain, kidneys and bladder.  Muscle and the uterus decompose last of all.\n\nIf the body were washed around in strong currents it is likely to be washed ashore.  If the body stayed in the water the limbs are likely to become detached in due course.  Flesh will break down into slime  and the skeletal frame will collapse.
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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."