#open casket

Some of the more than 500 persons who came to view the body of John Garfield move past the casket in Riverside Memorial Chapel, May 22, 1952. The 39-year-old stage and screen actor died of a heart attack on May 21.

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.

Final Prayers

wouldn’t it be nice if we were older?

then we wouldn't have to wait so long