To delay decay, embalmers can drain the blood and other fluids from a corpse and replace it with embalming fluids they inject into the veins. These chemicals, which act as preservatives, stop the ...

As the tissues decay, they can become unrecognizable, and you may start to get some skeletonization. The final stage would be complete skeletonization. While this sounds simple, it's not that simple.

Her body was buried in a wooden coffin without any embalming in very moist clay. The nuns said they expected bones, but that's not what they discovered.

In a one-of-its-kind study, our team analysed 408 human bodies exhumed from grave pits and stone tombs in the north of Italy to find out what conditions help speed up decay.

Health workers try to remove Bella Montoya, 76, from her coffin after she started knocking from the inside. (Associated Press) "There were about 20 of us there," Barbera said.

The practice dates back to the Victorian era, when an airtight seal on a coffin was necessary to prevent the potent effects of decay in above-ground burials. Members of the Royal Family and ...