Filed Under: Nightmare Fuel
Apparently, corpses don’t stop moving for up to a year after death, due to the various decomposition processes they go through.
Which makes me wonder how many of those bells rang at Victorian gravesides even though the people in the coffins were, in fact, dead.
Yikes.
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The research that brought you this lovely tidbit of macabre information comes from an Australian body farm (a place where scientists study how bodies decompose in order to improve forensic techniques.
In a time-lapse video containing images taken every 30 minutes over a period of 17 months, researchers saw movement for far longer than they expected to – over a year and a half in some cases. In an interview with ABC News Australia, the authors said they believe the movements were mostly the result of drying ligaments.
“What we found was that the arms were significantly moving, so that arms that started off down beside the body ended up out to the side of the body.”
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They’ve yet to publish their study, but hope their findings will continue to add to a body of research that helps police solve murders, among other things.
“This research is very important to help law enforcement to solve crime and it also assists in disaster investigations. It’s important for victims and victims’ families, and in a lot of cases it gives the victim a voice to tell their last story.”
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Just an FYI: Body farms exist all over the world, and they depend on body donations from people looking to assist science after they’ve expired.
I say you might as well be helpful. Either way, you’re just going to be decomposing.
