# How Long Will Alcohol Preserve A Body?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-alcohol-preserve-a-body/420742>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-alcohol-preserve-a-body/420742 "2007-09-27T22:20:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-alcohol-preserve-a-body/420742/1 "2007-09-27T22:20:54Z")

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Years ago, I was given some discarded specimens from a local college museum. They were mostly specimens of various maribe animals and shellfish. They were in fine shape-some had been collected 76 yeras before. I used them to decorate some windwsill-they gave the room a scientific tone.  
Anyway, how long do such museum pieces last? Would a human body immersed in alcohol be good for several hundred years?

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-will-alcohol-preserve-a-body/420742/2 "2007-09-27T22:48:09Z")

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Closing duplicate thread.