Death Care

A little more about me, you can call me Casper, I use any and all pronouns and I’m a satanist which is one of the major reasons I wanna do this because satanists believe in knowledge and the accessibility of that knowledge and I just feel like some information about death just isn’t as accessible as it could be which is insane since it is something we all will experience.

-if you are being buried, you may also likely be embalmed which is not something someone could survive quite honestly.

-even if you weren’t embalmed, lots of the time you will still be given a kind of bath, just the way that is often conducted, I have a hard time believing they wouldn’t notice if you were still alive.

-even a direct burial takes a few days to process usually, so I feel like you’d probably have time to wake up before then

Anyways,

Embalmed bodies don’t really rot.

Embalming is the preservation of the body by replacing the blood with embalming solution and some formaldehyde, it makes the body a unfavourable food or nutrient source for any kind of bug or microorganisms which would cause decomposition.

If someone in your story is dead and you want them to be a rotting corpse then most realistically they’d have had a direct burial since embalmed body’s arnt supposed to decompose and typically if there was an open casket an embalming would have had to have taken place.

Again this does not mean you have to change your story or how you write in anyway at all, just wanted to share the reality for anyone interested.