# Help dealing with decomposition **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924 "2021-05-26T01:06:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/41 "2021-05-27T14:42:35Z")
Hah! I wish. She was awake at the crack of dawn and felt like going for a short hike. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/42 "2021-05-27T14:47:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > OMG. Deer. A buck in velvet. Guess who’s drinking [D’oh! A deer. A female deer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z28yfpVcuxs) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/43 "2021-05-27T14:53:36Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Vicks Vapo-Rub This was cause for much laughter. We have very little in the way of OTC medication in our house. My gf has Bactine, in fact many bottles of Bactine. I’ve always teased her about how useless her Bactine is, but she uses it for minor cuts and scrapes and is still alive, so there’s that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/44 "2021-05-27T15:05:15Z")
Never mind. This was a test post. ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/45 "2021-05-27T18:47:40Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > I’d be interested in hearing if the vultures completely cleaned the carcass, and, if so, how long it took. Took the turkey buzzards & bald eagle about 4 days to clean up a coyote in my pasture. Could probably eat on a deer for a week and a half. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/46 "2021-05-30T03:24:45Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > > [@Melbourne](#): > > > > I was looking for Beethoven   > > He really didn’t want to be remembered for those symphonies.   Apropos of this thread, what’s Beethoven been doing since he died 194 years ago in 1827? > **Click here.** > > Decomposing. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/47 "2021-05-30T05:31:28Z")
I see your horrible joke and raise you - [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C52Ai1MGwU) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/48 "2021-06-01T11:56:45Z")
**Amazing Update** On Sunday we were working on a household project. My gf walked away for a bit, then returned all excited. She took me to see the dead deer _and it was almost entirely gone_!! There were ribs and the skull with some flesh, sitting in a pool of black goo. Billions of maggots. No odor whatsoever. The wet, cool weather? Coyotes, vultures, flies? All it took was a week! ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/49 "2021-06-01T21:14:34Z")
It’s the circle of life. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/50 "2021-06-02T00:36:00Z")
Now you know what to do when you die. Your family doesn’t need ‘cremation’ or ‘burial’ – they can just take your body down to the fence line… ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/51 "2021-06-02T10:37:11Z")
Actually, yeah, I’d be happy to know my remains rotted away in the exact spot the deer was located. It’s a shady spot with a creek (crick\*) nearby. We call this area of the horse pasture “the bottoms” as a Stephen King homage. - A buddy of mine has a brewery called Conny Creek. He’ll correct you and point out “it’s pronounced “”Crick”. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/52 "2021-06-02T15:18:27Z")
Your corpse rotting away in a place named for Stephen King…what could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/53 "2021-06-02T16:44:26Z")
I’m picturing the late @kayaker rising as a 2-legged zombie version of Cujo. Roaming the wilds of Pennsylvania feasting up the flesh of the unwary. Or at least mugging them and taking their recreational substances. 😉 Should be a big hit. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/54 "2021-06-02T17:22:09Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Should be a big hit. ISWYDT ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/55 "2021-06-02T17:26:39Z")
Come to think of it, we have two horses buried deep in the bottoms. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/56 "2021-06-26T13:52:26Z")
**UPDATE** A summer thunderstorm knocked some big branches onto our fence. I was chainsawing and totally forgot I was in the dead deer area. All I found was this: [[Album] imgur.com ![](https://i.imgur.com/4v8X9rr.jpeg?fb "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/a/LkNo4OZ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924.md?page=2)