I've heard that rotting human corpses smell pretty bad. Anyone smell one before? How does it smell vs. a regular old animal corpse. If it smells worse, why?

i've never smelled one. but my uncle who is a firefighter/paramedic said it was the worst smell he'd ever experienced.

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n/m you were talking about rotting - not burning. my mistake.

It smells worse to us because it offers a glimpse of what we will smell like when we become human corpses. It gives a frame of reference of what it would be like to experience our own death. Animal corpses smell terrible but we will not become animal corpses when we die so we can handle it although it's terrible. The smell of our own death is far more revolting.

A human skeleton, while small, is far scarier than a dinosaur skeleton. Most human skeletons are buried in graves instead of being put on display while we dig up dinosaur skeletons and construct museums to display them. Some appreciate the human skeleton but they are less common than those who appreciate dinosaur skeletons.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail I've heard that rotting human corpses smell pretty bad. Anyone smell one before? How does it smell vs. a regular old animal corpse. If it smells worse, why?

If anything it would be attributed to all that garbage we eat of processed foods and multifactored diet.

Other than that i have no reason as to why it would smell different than most other mammals.

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Originally posted by Akridrot It smells worse to us because it offers a glimpse of what we will smell like when we become human corpses. It gives a frame of reference of what it would be like to experience our own death. Animal corpses smell terrible but we will not become animal corpses when we die so we can handle it although it's terrible. The smell of our own death is far more revolting. A human skeleton, while small, is far scarier than a dinosaur skeleton. Most human skeletons are buried in graves instead of being put on display while we construct museums to display the skeletons of dead dinosaurs. Some appreciate the human skeleton but they are less common than those who appreciate dinosaur skeletons.

would be an interesting experiment.
"Are human corpses perceived to smell more repulsive than animal corpses when they are seen?"

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The prosaic explanation for why human corpses smell worse may be that they're simply bigger than many dead animals. Try putting fifteen to twenty rotting cats in a pile (about the weight of an adult human male) and then see what that smells like compared to one human corpse.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles The prosaic explanation for why human corpses smell worse may be that they're simply bigger than many dead animals. Try putting fifteen to twenty rotting cats in a pile (about the weight of an adult human male) and then see what that smells like compared to one human corpse.

Hmm, most animal corpses i've come across were too small to really noticeably smell (rats, birds).

I find dead deer more than anything else

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Originally posted by ******** I smell ok.

lol how much hours a day are you dead usually?

Dude, even people who are dying/not dead yet smell pretty goddamn terrible. There is no way to even describe it.