# What, if anything, happens to your tan when you die?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-happens-to-your-tan-when-you-die/230586 "2004-02-23T02:26:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chelonia\_mydas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chelonia\_mydas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonia_mydas)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-happens-to-your-tan-when-you-die/230586/1 "2004-02-23T02:26:00Z")

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well, besides the whole eventual decomposition of skin thingy…

The Turtle Moves

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-anything-happens-to-your-tan-when-you-die/230586/2 "2004-02-23T05:49:22Z")

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From what little I have read about post-embalmed skin, the tan, er, darkens. And that’s all I have to say about that.