Rongnongno Loc: FL

To the moderators... If you think it is inappropriate, please delete, I have no issue with that.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Too blurry to possibly be offensive

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

How could it possibly be offensive? I can’t tell what it is. Some insect perhaps?

Dennis

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Decaying, dried up insect after ants got to it... Gruesome process.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Maybe having been a deputy coroner for years has inured me to all things gruesome but this just can’t compare to, let’s say, neighbors in Southern California calling the local sheriffs office to say their neighbor hasn’t been seen for two weeks in the middle of August. Oddly a sickening smell coming from the house. Now THAT was gruesome especially when the two morticians, after I told them not to pick up the body by the head and feet, thought the body would not split in half. It did.

🤓🤓🤓

Dennis

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

Dennis
what was the cause of death????
chuck

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I really have no idea. He was laying in his bed so most likely natural causes, heart attack, something like that. There was no foul play noted at all. It was just a routine case except for the very hot weather which led to rapid decomposition of the body. When the two morticians lifted the body rather than rolling it on to the gurney into a body bag, the belly split in two. All of the gasses, maggots and odor came rushing into the room. That was the only time I came close to vomiting in seeing a decaying body. No vomiting but a lot of wretching.

Most deputies hated any kind of coroner's report. I liked them. Most were just typical death in that an elderly man or woman woke up in the morning and found the spouse dead in bed. Those were easy as long as the doctor signed off on the death certificate. Others were a bit more exciting in that I personally found two dead bodies, one in a camper on the Ventura-Santa Barbara County Line, natural causes and one was in the Santa Barbara City inside a store window. Oddly enough it was natural causes as well. Floaters in the ocean were gruesome after small fish got done with them. Suicides were sometimes interesting. One woman dressed herself in a nice looking dress and laid on a bed with her arms crossed just as if she was in a mortuary after processing. She was dying of cancer and could not stand the pain. She took pills to commit the suicide. It was an interesting job.

My apologies to the OP. I had no intention of detracting from his interesting post and I apologize for doing that.

Dennis

CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC

Looks good to me, true to life photo.

Greg

dsturr

Kind of reminded me of the stuff winterrose used to post.