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What Does a Dead Body Smell Like?

Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:16 pm
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
73741 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:16 pm
If you've ever smelled a dead human body before, how does it compare to these descriptions?

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“Buy a Boston Butt pork roast and let it rot. Pigs and humans are apparently similar, meat-wise. It actually turns like a sea blue-green color. (It smells like farts and then gets worse.)”


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“A dead body, specifically a human corpse has a rank and pungent smell mixed with a tinge of sickening sweetness. Imagine a rotting piece of meat with a couple drops of cheap perfume and you’re halfway to understanding what a human corpse smells like.”


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“Rotten eggs, feces, and a used toilet left out for a month x 1000. It is unholy.


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“I was a volunteer firefighter and police had to enter the residence before any of us could. The SCBA is automatic. So I quickly put it on a cop to enter the residence of a woman who neighbors haven’t seen in weeks. Those SCBAs block toxins and the cop ran out of the house drowning on his vomit. He claims he smelled her through the mask….That’s how bad a dead person smells. We eat everything. Those toxins in our bodies is what makes us stink so bad when we die. And to make it worse, when I got home I snorted soap while in the shower. A few hours later I began smelling the stench of her again. The bacteria is said to cling to your nostril hair and remultiplies later until it’s gone. I can’t tell you what it smells like. You’ll know it when you do.”


20 People Describe the Smell of a Dead Body
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
34147 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:17 pm to
ummmm
Posted by CajunSoldier225
Member since Aug 2011
8990 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:17 pm to
You never forget it.

Edit:

And why are people curious about this? This on the same level as watching cartel execution videos.

This post was edited on 2/18/17 at 3:19 pm
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
74568 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:18 pm to
Well it looks like we've officially run out of shite to talk about.
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
17356 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:19 pm to
I couldn't really compare. The only dead body that I found had only been dead for less than a day.
Posted by stlslick
St.Louis,Mo
Member since Nov 2012
15293 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:24 pm to
Father, who was a police officer had a container of vicks vaper rub for those humid days and a dead body.

You grabbed a huge load of that shite and shoved it up ur nose, and prayed it would take some of the bite, from that smell away.

They would get bodies that had sat in a brick house, baking for days, sometimes up to a week or so.
Posted by chew4219
Member since Sep 2009
3236 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:24 pm to
Its the most memorable smell you'll ever experience. Not the most pungent though IMO. Any prolonged abscess is way worse when it's lanced.

Also large quantities of human blood is not pleasant either.
Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
40397 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:26 pm to
quote:

What Does a Dead Body Smell Like?


The smell is bad. Rotting flesh typically smells terrible. The thing that gets people is knowing that it's a human body making that smell. It's psychologically scarring.
This post was edited on 2/18/17 at 3:33 pm
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
38761 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:27 pm to
Had a roomate in Pharmacy school, during the summer break , without telling anyone, unplugged the fridge as we all had moved back to our homes for the break, and the meat and frozen dinners and things thawed and rotted out for a solid 2 months

My mom and I came back to clean some and opened the door to what I have to assume is the equivalent smell. It was truly awful .
Posted by ahunt1905
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Apr 2009
889 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:35 pm to
Neighbor at my old apartment complex died in his apartment and went about a week before someone called the cops. I was gone for a few days but when I came back it was a pretty terrible smell and that was just from walking by his door. It does have a sweet smell to it but it's very hard to describe.
Posted by kengel2
Team Gun
Member since Mar 2004
33863 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:37 pm to
Your old lady's cooter is a much more accurate description.
Posted by Breesus
Unplug
Member since Jan 2010
69549 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:37 pm to
First you make a roux...
Posted by ReauxlTide222
St. Petersburg
Member since Nov 2010
92335 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:39 pm to
Ask The Ocean. He's in a Mexican cartel.
Posted by HogBalls
Member since Nov 2014
9335 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:44 pm to
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This on the same level as watching cartel execution videos.

I screwed up last year and watched the cartel flay a guy on some website. It was horrible but I couldn't look away from it! Those guys are on another level when it comes to violence.

Edit: Didn't see the cartel execution thread going
This post was edited on 2/18/17 at 3:50 pm
Posted by Chazzy McRamzee
Member since Jun 2014
2681 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 3:46 pm to
quote:

Had a roomate in Pharmacy school


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unplugged the fridge as we all had moved back to our homes for the break



Must have only been book smart.
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
38761 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:04 pm to
Weird cat. He wouldn't use the community microwave or fridge. Had his own "Fry Daddy" and microwave and fridge for his room. His mom would drive 30 minutes and pick his dirty clothes up and wash them..
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
34738 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:20 pm to
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
41368 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:26 pm to
I could ask my close friend. She found her 13 year old son with a self inflicted gunshot wound yesterday.

Bullying. It's unbelievable how fricked up the US is. I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
Posted by biggsc
Member since Mar 2009
34777 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:26 pm to
Posted by liz18lsu
Member since Feb 2009
18134 posts
Posted on 2/18/17 at 4:28 pm to
Did 4 autopsies when I was 16, didn't notice a smell really.
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