# Help dealing with decomposition

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [June 1, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-dealing-with-decomposition/942924/48 "2021-06-01T11:56:45Z")

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**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!

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