What does a dead body look like after 10 years?

Answer 1

it will look decayed,there will be just bones, and it will have a bad odor.

Actually, when a person dies they are taken to either a funeral home for embalming or to a coroner's office for autopsy. After the person arrives they are then emptied of all bodily fluids, organs and their brain is taken out and weighed. If an autopsy has been done all of this is pretty much done when the funeral home gets them.

All that is done then is to force embalming fluid into the veins. This is a preservative that allows the body to lay "in state" while the funeral takes place.

Actually, when the casket is lowered into the grave, it goes into a vault that is cement and is sealed. This keeps most bugs and animals from entering the casket. Most deceased bodies are pretty much in-tact with hair, nails, skin and even facial hair after 10,20, 30 years. Embalming and the removal of organs and blood help to create a modern mummification.

Chances are that your loved one would look thinner and darker than they did at burial but pretty much the same. Fat cells would have melted away and some decay would have taken place but overall the facial area would be in-tact. In cases of diseased bodies, that might not be the case. Cancer, and some influenza, and bacterial infections can eat away at body tissue.

If you were to roll that person over and look at their underside, it would be most likely the place of most decay. Gravity forces any decaying to take place where the body is touching any surface.

Answer 2

What a dead body, human or otherwise, would look like after a year depends where it's been. If it has been in a dump, it would probably be fully decomposed. If it has been a clean empty room, it would probably have almost fully decomposed.

But there are so many factors involved in this question that without reference to a specific case or postulated set of circumstances it is impossible to say, or even guess at an answer.

A human carcass might be kept indefinitely by local authorities, depending on relevant legislation, where there are, for example, criminal proceedings pending. Under professionally-maintained cold-storage refrigeration, for example in a morgue (mortuary) there should be little change. The same would apply to a carcass in any cold area protected from predators and changing weather, where the temperature remained fairly constant.

In dry conditions, a carcass can mummify over time, the length of time depending on those conditions. Embalming, both natural and applied by humans, won't stop decomposition, but can delay it for long periods of time.

In an outdoor and unprotected situation (whether shallowly buried or not) under varying weather conditions and temperatures generally above freezing, any carcass would deteriorate quickly from exposure to climate, and to predators of all kinds. After a year it'd be just bones. In an area where larger predators live the bones would be scattered rather than remain a nice, neat skeleton, because predators routinely take parts of a carcass away to eat away from other scavengers, or to share with their families or community.

In a busy area the bones would be so scattered as to only be noticeable to expert searching.

So, after a year you could have a fresh-looking corpse, a mummy, something in between, something completely different, or nothing much at all.

Answer 3

It probably looks like bones almost all there hair is gone and some clothing on.

The stages of decay will depend a great deal on the conditions of the body's location, of course, but in all but the most forgiving environments, all soft tissue will be decayed by one year post mortem, with bones, hair, and perhaps some mummified skin remaining.

Answer 4

If the body has been stored at a low temp (between 3 and 6 degrees is ideal) then in most instances it will look pretty much the same as it did at the time of death. However other factors will have an influence. It may well be that the body has deteriorated but a good funeral director in most instances will be able to make the body look presentable.

Answer 5

You can look up some videos of dead human bodies on a multimedia website. It might look rotten, or moldy. It would probably look gross and disgusting to you. Please, don`t go dig up a random coffin from a cemetery or graveyard. Thank you!(:

Answer 6

It would look like a zombie that is still dead....

Answer 7

skin is hanging of boned and roting away skull has no skin

Answer 8

a rotten skeliton