how long does it take a body to decompose naturally?
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When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used. For example a solid oak coffin will highly slow down the process.
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Left naked in the sun in shallow water it may take just a few days to decompose. On land maybe a week. Underground a few years, in a coffin 6feet under perhaps 50 years depending on the quality of the coffin. If embalmed and treated then thousands of years!
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When buried naturally - with no coffin or embalming - decomposition takes 8 to 12 years. Adding a coffin and/or embalming fluid can tack on additional years to the process, depending on the type of funerary box. The quickest route to decomposition is a burial at sea. Underwater, corpses decompose four times faster.
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It really depends on the cause of the death. Typically placed 6ft down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, eight to twelve years to completely decompose into a skeleton.
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In the right conditions embalming fluids can preserve a body indefinitely, but burial, moisture or humid conditions attract bacteria to form and begin the process of decay. ... It can take between eight and twelve years for an unembalmed body buried six feet down, to decompose to a skeleton.
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Fresh stage (roughly 0-12 hours after death) Typically, your body's temperature drops by two degrees per hour until it reaches the temperature of the surrounding environment.
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In my neighborhood: About two months, except if it is winter, then 6 months. In cold weather climates it could take decades. There are bodies at the top of mount Everest that have been decomposing for over twenty years. The colder and dryer it is, the slower decomposition.
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Biodegradable plastics take three to six months to decompose fully. That's much quicker than synthetic counterparts that take several hundred years. Exactly how long a biodegradable bag takes to break down depends on various factors, such as temperature and the amount of moisture present.
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Buried in the ground without a coffin, it takes a human body 6 to 8 years to decompose to just a skeleton. Enclosed in a coffin, it can take 50 years or longer, and some bodies have lasted, with skin, for centuries or millennia depending on surrounding conditions.
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Decomposition is well under way by the time burial or cremation occurs. ... When buried six feet down, without a coffin, in ordinary soil, an unembalmed adult normally takes eight to twelve years to decompose to a skeleton. However if placed in a coffin the body can take many years longer, depending on type of wood used.
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Decomposition Rates Vary By Burial Type However, the length of decomposition varies greatly after burial. This is because environmental conditions affect the process. When buried naturally - with no coffin or embalming - decomposition takes 8 to 12 years.
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It will possibly take from 6 months to 18 years for a dog body to completely become a skeleton. However, it depends on where the dog is buried and how it is buried. For example, if the dog was buried in a coffin, it will take a longer time for it to decompose.
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It depends on the surrounding temperature and density of stuff around (air, liquid, vacuum, etc). If you dipped a bofy into a bath of liquid nitrogen, a few seconds. If you placed a body in a restaurant's walk-in freezer, around 12 hours.
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In theory, the time it takes for an embalmed body to fully decompose can be many years, depending on the environment. ... In the right conditions embalming fluids can preserve a body indefinitely, but burial, moisture or humid conditions attract bacteria to form and begin the process of decay.
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A body presents little threat to public health in the first day following the death. However, after 24 hours the body will need some level of embalming. A mortuary will be able to preserve the body for approximately a week. Regardless of the embalming, decomposition will begin after one week.
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Decomposition. The following images show the gradual changes taking place as the body of a dead rabbit decomposes over a period of 5 months. Most of the visual changes take place during the first two months and then the process slows down.
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It takes around 12 hours for a human body to be cool to the touch and 24 hours to cool to the core. Rigor mortis commences after three hours and lasts until 36 hours after death.