re: What Does a Dead Body Smell Like?

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I could ask my close friend. She found her 13 year old son with a self inflicted gunshot wound yesterday.

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From Lafayette?

Speaking from years of experience, burned bodies smell much like your grill or smoker when you have a brisket or other large piece of meat on it. It's a little more pungent, though. Every time I had to deal with one I couldn't eat barbecue for months.


Freshly dead people really don't have an odor other than normal bodily fluids or sometimes fecal matter.

People that have been deceased for a while and have started to decay are something else entirely. It's a smell you will never forget. It's worse than smelling a decaying animal. Way worse. If you add in the visual of maggots covering them, it's almost unbearable.

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From Lafayette?

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Yea

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Bullying. It's unbelievable how fricked up the US is. I'm glad I don't live there anymore.

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Yes. Because bullying and suicide only happen in the United States. Glad you're not here anymore.

I watched a Forensic Files where someone bought a house and found a 50 pound drum in their basement.

They tried to move it, but it was too heavy.

Turns out a dead body was in there for 30 years.

I've never smelled a dead human body, but I would think one would smell similar to most other dead animals.

Just stop on the side of the road and smell one.


Few things are worse than doing some type of roadwork and having to work near a dead animal for a while.

Depends on how long it has been sitting in the elements.

My grandfather died at home alone watching TV. We found him maybe 3 days later.

Burned the mattress he was sleeping on on his property.

I'll never forget that smell

Is that professor still alive?

He was old as shite like 20 years ago, but he is cool.