Did you study organic chemistry or microbiology?
This does smack of the Friend of a Friend story. It makes a great story, but no one can seem to find actual evidence that it did happen.
While it is interesting and amusing(??) to some degree, I’d like a citation of some sort before I believe it and start spreading it around as true.
How would the remains be disposed of (sorry, I couldn’t think of a better term) in a case like that? Would they just be “poured” into a casket, then buried? I doubt she’d be 100% liquid; unless her bones somehow disolved. Would cremation still be possible?
This thread is going to make me puke. I need to quit visualizing what I’m reading about.
There is a name for that mould. It’s mentioned in Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God. It grows on corpses.
Yes, and no. It depends. If you’ve been mummified or petrified then you’re body could be good for centuries.
It’s to do with lots of different conditions.
If you die in bed, in a warm room. Then most likely you will rot quickly and leak. If the room is drier and cooler, you may petrify, You could be like a dry cured ham. . People have been dead on their couches for years before anyone found them.
The first 4, which I expect to contribute >50% of total fluids, are routinely disposed of in toilets.
Did you spot a newly minted god of Guilt go skipping away as your fridge was transported to its final resting place? 
(Sorry about your loss, but the fridge part of it reminded me of Douglas Adam’s “The long, dark tea-time of the soul”).
Sewage does not go down the same pipes as tub water.
Don’t you people watch Bones?
It all flows into the same sewer pipe in the middle of the street.
And unless you specifically plumb the house to separate the grey water for irrigation purposes, everything “down the drain” on a septic system all drains into the septic tank.
~VOW
They don’t? You mean my bathroom has 4 pipes: cold water, hot water, shower water and sewerage? What countries does this apply in?
And as VOW said, I don’t think the sewerage treatment plant handles 2 streams.
Okay. Here’s a story.
One of my interests is “treasure hunting.” I’m even available for “where did grandpa hide the money?”. I’ve done this for people.
My dream gig would be getting a call for help with the state of an elderly survivalist-hoarder.
Anyway, I ran into a guy online who was stuck with the estate of a character as described above. He was a drop-out who had been a surgeon.
And they had the rotting, packed with meat, freezer problem.
I though they should go through that meat. I don’t know what they did.
Some newer homes have ‘gray water’ streams; typically, the water can be use for on-site irrigation. I don’t know if they do this in cities or in rural leach-field only areas.
Typically, the grey water used for irrigation comes from the laundry. Sink and tub/shower water can be considered as grey water, but many people have garbage disposals which would make for putrid irrigation.
And what people do in tubs/showers is often not considered to be grey water.
~VOW
Huh? Yes, greywater is exactly water from bathing, as well as from dishes and laundry (except for diapers). http://greywateraction.org/greywater-recycling
Are we talking about the U.S.? Am I right that this is mostly a suburban thing?
Unless you take a very bad fall.
Now if I was a mod, I would split this off to gray-water/irrigation/septics or something.
Just saying.
I would like to mod but only on section: “What is this.?” 