"RD!" A new officer calls out to me.
"I got to see my first purple body!"
Had lividity set in?
Yes! The person had been dead a week.
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A week old body. Did he comment about the smell or state of decomposition, gelatinous flesh, bloating from the gases, or maggots crawling out of every orifice...?
Those are the things that stick in my mind of a week old body in hot weather...
Posted by: Straight Pipe | May 20, 2023 at 10:44 AM
Nope, just the color of the tissue.
Cheers,
RD
Posted by: RD | May 20, 2023 at 12:39 PM