Saponification
image source and article As I work in a mostly arid climate, although the past few springs have been very wet, I've never seen this happen to a body. In other parts of the country that are more humid and cool, saponification happens. Yes, a body can turn to "soap". Click the link for an interesting article. If you are into this sort of thing. It is also known as "grave wax" or most professionally adipocere. Well not really soap that we wash with. Here is the Wikipedia article .
whoa, cool painted skulls. that actually seems like a really neat way to memorialize the dead, rather than leaving them underground and putting up a big slab of stone with their name on it. it's so much more personal.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I like them too.
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