[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . while scientists study how the local climate . . . impacts the five different stages of human decomposition — fresh, bloat, active decay, advanced decay and skeletonization — or how quickly their soft tissue is lost to necrophagous insects like beetles and blow flies."

There's something very creepy, very Nazi-like about this. I would guess that police forensic experts already know a great deal about the factors affecting the decomposition rate of human corpses, so there is something morbidly prurient about this line of "research." And what of value do they expect to learn? We already know that corpses rot.

Why do I suspect that this research might have some hidden endgame, whether intended or unintended? Are we being prepared to accept this kind of human disposal as some sort of entertainment, or as a gruesome punishment for the enemies of society? Or something else that I can't even imagine?

[sparklite2]

Or something else that I can’t even imagine?

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I could tell you, but you might prefer to sleep at night.