Dead body smell <<GRAPHIC>>

[TiminMishawaka]

Never realized how much a dead human body smells like wet pork rinds.

Anyway, I had an insurance claim yesterday where a guy died and wasn't discovered for 2 weeks. I had to go in and figure out how much repairs would cost from his ____ that _____ all over the wall from his body _____ to about twice it's normal size and ________ after being dead in the summer heat for two weeks (no AC). I had to put on a respirator just to stand the smell for 10 minutes. After I finished I hosed myself down with lysol disinfectant and changed clothes.

Got me to thinking - if the S does HTF, there's going to be a lot of dead body odor around and all the nasties that go with it. The smell will knock you out though if you're not ready for it. The closest thing I can think of that could get you mentally ready for this kind of smell is field dressing a gut shot pig in July.

Get an organic vapor cartridge for your respirator (the cartridge respirators at Home Depot will work) and a can of disinfectant for any work you may have to do around old dead bodies. Worst case scenario if the S never hits the fan you can still use it when you're using your paint sprayer to turn the wife's minivan into the A-team van.

 

[Bigum1969]

Well, this just provided the kick start I needed for my new diet.

 

[IndyMonkey]

 

[TiminMishawaka]

Well, this just provided the kick start I needed for my new diet.

I have pictures.

 

[Bigum1969]

 

[Bigum1969]

I have pictures.

You have no choice.

You must post them.

 

[bdj357]

Dang, now that you said it...dead bodies to kind of smell like old, wet pork rinds!

 

[TiminMishawaka]

LOL Posted a reply to Bigum right as you posted this. Give me a second. Out of respect to the deceased, I'm only going to put up post removal shots.

 

[360]

OdoBan will take care of anything.

 

[TiminMishawaka]

Ok, here's the photos post removal and biohazard initial cleaning. The smell would still knock you out even after biohazard techs went through the first time. Uneventful unless you know what to look for. This area here is where the bed was at. Look for any sort of darkened mark on the wall or anything that looks like dripping. That's from his ______ exploding all over the wall. It then soaked through the carpet and pad and into the pile of clothing. So.....who's hungry?

 

[Archbishop]

People in Haiti were putting tooth paste under their noses to block the stench during the whole earthquake deal.

 

[360]

If I lived there, I would have done the same thing.

 

[Colt556]

We put Benzoine on the mask and Menthelatum under our nostrils for really bad odors. Dead bodies have a sort of putrid sweet smell, very hard to describe but nothing else smells like it.

 

[turnandshoot4]

I think decayed burnt flesh smells intresting.

Kinda like meat cooked over a plastic feuled fire. Weird I know.

 

[shibumiseeker]

I can not be around hog roasts. The carcass turning on the spit looks and smells a whole lot like roasted human, and I've encountered plenty of that in my life. Doesn't make me sick, but I don't have any appetite. But yeah, putrefaction of a person has a unique smell that is unlike that of any other animal I've encountered.

 

[AuntieBellum]

WARNING:
DISGUSTING PIC AHEAD!

And yes, I took this myself.

Has anyone heard of Dr. Neal Haskell? You may have seen him on the Discovery Channel. Real-life Gil Grissom. I took his maggot class this summer and learned TONS. This pic was taken on his farm in the circle of death, a circle of pigs in various stages of decomp.

 

[E5RANGER375]

im hungry. think i'll cook up some pigs feet

 

[PaulJF]

In my old job I would often be called when someone hadn't been heard from for days. Many times I was with family members when we found the dead body. Sometimes I was alone doing a "health and welfare" check.
And yes, clean up afterward was left to my crew. I don't miss those days at all.

 

[curraheeguns]

Once you smell a dead body you always know the smell when you come across it again.

I took a run once of a "check the welfare" of an older person who lived on the sixth floor of an apartment building. My partner and I walked into the foyer on the ground floor, smelled death waiting on us, looked at each other and said......"yep, he's dead".

Human death smells the same no matter where you find it.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

I've heard that a lot of folks can/will put a lot of various things under their nose to help hide/mask the smell...

Part of those discussions, I've heard that sticking your finger inside the gas fill valve and hoping for a little gasoline is "supposed to work".

I DO know, though, that heavy mentholated products, like Vick's Vapo Rub, you do NOT want to use. That stuff is designed to OPEN your nasal passages...

That said, I certainly hope that I don't ever have to experience it.

But if it were a true SHTF scenario and you just couldn't get away from it, you'd soon be "used" to it. Sensory deprivation works in our bodies every day all the time (for the most part), that smell would be no different.

-J-