Does a body really smell that bad after 13 hours? I had no idea.
Sure do. That's why I always get them in my freezer with the hour....
There may be certain leakage fairly soon after a person dies.
Some bodies don’t smell that great while they’re alive.
The guy next door to me in a boarding house at school downed a bunch of pills and a fifth of scotch and climbed under an electric blanket. Four days later I went back to get some books for Christmas break. Got the manager and went in to his room. Unresponsive, I rolled him over and maggots roiled out of his sinus. The stench is something that cannot be forgotten.
Bodily secretions. Loose bowel and stuff ....
“ Does a body really smell that bad after 13 hours? I had no idea.”
It’s not uncommon for a person to empty their bowels while having a heart attack. I’ve seen bathrooms “painted” with poop about 4’ high.
I don’t know but I can tell you this; after spring break-up in west Alaska when the previously submerged bodies of Yupik’s who thought they could cross still unfrozen bodies of water on their snow machines (sloughs, lakes, rivers) and didn’t, perishing and only to be discovered as those said bodies of water warmed up 6 months later bringing decomposition, bloating and floating where the corpse can then be recovered, and don’t ask me why unless they wanted to prove AGAIN that indigenous peoples don’t process alcohol well because they would be sent to Anchorage for autopsy by a state coroner.
Anyway, in the transfer process of one of these unfortunate souls my fellow ramp worker didn’t possess enough core strength to make sure his end of the body bag didn’t end up ripping on the seat floor brackets (seats of course had been removed for body transport). A large rip in the black bag leaked out all pooled up fluids, damn.
I made him bleach out the aircraft deck. (C. 1986-spring)
Could be leakage. Everything relaxes.
The deceased was bathed in Eau de Pepe le Pew.
Live people stink after a thirteen hour flight and most of them haven’t vacated their bowels in their pants.
If they are Indian or Pakistani...yes...they smell horrible when alive!