The Smell Of Death
Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan
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🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What is the worst thing you have ever seen on the job? This is one of the most common questions asked of Joseph Scott Morgan. Today on Body Bags, the professor breaks down the stages of decomposition while sharing his firsthand accounts of working the scene of bodies that have been decomposing in the heat from a day to a month or more. This is a can't miss episode that provides an up close look at those who deal with death and the very natural things that take place in every person when they die.
Transcription Highlights
00:00:00 Introduction - What is the worst thing you have ever seen?
00:03:45 Sensory Memories and human remains
00:05:06 Talk about the "smell" of burning flesh
00:09:25 Particular smells, burning tires
00:15:25 Life and Death are natural
00:20:18 Description of decomposing body in a bed
00:25:07 Smelling coworkers for the smell of decomposition
00:30:14 Different levels of decomposition
00:35:38 Environmental temperature impacting decomposition
00:40:36 Looking at decomposition hiding injury
00:42:48 Conclusion
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| 0:00.0 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:04.0 | What do you think is the most common question that I have been asked over the course of my career as a death investigator. |
| 0:17.0 | Well, my benchmark for that has been. The most common question is, what's the worst thing |
| 0:32.0 | you've ever seen? |
| 0:35.0 | And you know, worse comes in degrees. |
| 0:40.0 | And what might be really offensive and bad to you in the realm of death might not even |
| 0:48.5 | register on my meter. |
| 0:50.9 | It's not that I'm some great guru or something like that. It's just that after a period of time you're exposed to so much and you could say that I bet you could say that about any occupation out there. |
| 1:04.0 | But the other statement that is made is not a question. |
| 1:10.8 | It generally goes like this. I don't see how in the world you can do what you do. That is the question. It's more of a statement, but I've asked myself that |
| 1:27.6 | question because I would be around things that most people cannot even begin to imagine in their work a day lives. |
| 1:37.0 | And I would ask that question to myself, how do I do these things? The things that you see. But you know what it comes down to? It's all and how you frame it. |
| 1:59.3 | Today we're going to talk about human decomposition. From the investigative perspective, I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is body backs. Brother Dave, let me tell you |
| 2:12.0 | another question that I am asked many times, or statements that people make. |
| 2:20.0 | There's two of them when it comes to the dead. People will say that human decay, a decaying |
| 2:29.0 | human remain has a very particular smell. |
| 2:34.0 | And then they will also say that bodies that have burned |
| 2:42.0 | have a very particular smell. |
| 2:45.0 | How can these two things be? |
| 2:47.0 | Because first off, there's no scientific validation for those two statements. |
| 2:52.0 | There's no way that you can even qualify |
| 2:56.3 | those. You know what are you measuring it against because I got to tell you I've been |
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