That Skeleton?

[Julia99]

I have very little medical knowlede. .so i do ask . .how could that skeleton be a hanging there?  Wouldn't the ligaments that held the skeleton together have uhhh disintegrated??

[Midnite]

Wouldn't the ligaments that held the skeleton together have uhhh disintegrated??

Yep, and the cartilage (i.e. the joints, nose and ears) and muscle would rot away too.  What's left would be a Trask pile.

[A.I.Collins]

Haha...I knew something smelled fishy when I saw that skeleton hanging there.I knew that there was something that didn't look right...another question: do you think he would have decomposed that much in 45 years?

Adra

P.S....ewwww...he had spiderwebs all over him...what's the difference between spiderwebs and cobwebs anyway?

[Joeytrom]

Back in 1968 the skeleton of Trask was still hanging there.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Back in 1968 the skeleton of Trask was still hanging there.

I suppose we'll just have to assume that Trask's spirit kept his skeleton in place so that he wouldn't have to suffer the indignity of being discovered looking like a "trask" pile. 

[Patti Feinberg]

I suppose we'll just have to assume that Trask's spirit kept his skeleton in place so that he wouldn't have to suffer the indignity of being discovered looking like a "trask" pile. 

lolololol

Patti

Decomposition would partly depend on how airtight the bricked wall was...if the S word (see above) could get in...thinking some holes.

[Midnite]

Decomposition would partly depend on how airtight the bricked wall was...if the S word (see above) could get in...thinking some holes.

Are you afraid of spiders, er, s-words?

It would, but actually it's the buildup of gases that cause decomposition, so the smaller and more airtight the space the faster the process.  And oh boy is this morbid!

[A.I.Collins]

 Hey there!

 Yes, midnite, I am afraid of spiders..they just creep me out.Needless to say, i could not have been a guest in the old house.There was probably everything from spiders to rats in there!

Adra

[CastleBee]

Trask pile...ROTFLMAO! 

[Craig_Slocum]

It would, but actually it's the buildup of gases that cause decomposition, so the smaller and more airtight the space the faster the process.  And oh boy is this morbid!

What a thing to read before eating breakfast in the morning, lol! My brother is a mortician, he deals with all that gross stuff. At least Trask's skeleton wasn't wearing a wig. I always thought it was funny whenever I saw a skeleton on Dark Shadows wearing a wig! Skeletons don't have hair. In all the morbid real things concerning death, I just look forward to resurrection day when all will be restored to normal. 

[Joeytrom]

<<so the smaller and more airtight the space the faster the process.>>

How does this explain the body of Nickoli Lenin being preserved since the 1920's in Moscow?

[Raineypark]

Exactly because it WAS "preserved" and not just tossed into the casket.

[Julia99]

<<so the smaller and more airtight the space the faster the process.>>

How does this explain the body of Nickoli Lenin being preserved since the 1920's in Moscow?

taken from a website about embalming:
Soviet strongman V.I. LENIN became an icon after his death, helped along by an unusual effort to preserve his corpse. For decades after his 1924 death, Russians lined up in all weather to view Lenin's body on display in a glass container inside a special mausoleum in Red Square. A triumph of the embalmer's art, the corpse was removed on a regular basis for the special top-secret treatments that kept it looking remarkably lifelike. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, the fate of Lenin's body became something of a puzzle for the new Russian leadership: a embarrassing symbol of the old regime, yet too famous to remove. As the 21st century began, Lenin was still on display in his Red Square resting place.
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Now . . was the embalmer the same guy who did Eva Peron, I seem to recall the Peron imbalmer was an assistant or something for Lenin's corpse???