Death triggers a cascade of natural, yet often unsettling, changes to the human body. It’s a reality few outside the mortuary ...

We begin to decompose the moment we die, ... Decomposition of the body and our clothes. Story by Jim Loboy • 35m. We begin to decompose the moment we die ... But what about what’s inside a coffin?

A different, non-burial option that lets a body decompose naturally is human composting, where the body is added to a vessel with bark and woodchips and eventually breaks down to become nutrient ...

But once again, Quintanilla’s family members opened the casket and were “horrified” by what they saw – his body “in a shocking state of decomposition.” “His skin had turned purple ...

Lynch did briefly check the presentation of her grandmother’s body in the casket, but she felt trauma from her own mother’s death and didn’t look closely at the time, according to the suit.

But once again, Quintanilla’s family members opened the casket and were “horrified” by what they saw – his body “in a shocking state of decomposition.” “His skin had turned purple ...