Gone Feral In Idaho

I won't post them here, but will provide a link to a disaster cleanup place's website. I've been the one that had the really nasty job of removing bodies from scenes like the ones they show. I warn you, it is pretty gross. http://www.cleanqueens.com.au/scenes/index.html Their "mascot" seems a bit sexist, and maybe a bit tripped out on strong cleaning chemical fumes, but a lot of their site is interesting to peruse. I don't agree with this though, but I won't get into particulars in this post. I don't 100% disagree with their statement, but I feel there are some exaggerations to these type of statements. Violent death and body decomposition are biohazards. Through blood and air borne pathogens you risk HIV, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, e.coli and hantavirus.

Photo Source I wish I could use my own photos, but that would be wrong. This is a pretty good substitute. That is the question so many people ask me. I asked it the first time I came across a decomp (decomposing body). The odor, the flies, the mail and newspapers piling up. There are so many indicators to neighbors that something might be amiss. I regularly joke when we come upon a house on a dog walk with an overgrown lawn and 10 newspapers on the stoop. "Must be a dead body in there" is what I say as we walk by. Sometimes neighbors eventually call the super if it smells bad, but many times they wait for it to get so bad I have to wear a respirator to enter the place. Why do people not notice? I think it is because subconsciously, they'd rather put the idea of the whole death thing off as long as possible.  Here is a 2008 blog post about a problem in the rental business. One of these days I should write my own stories and publish a book.

Potter's field is the name for indigent graveyards- the burial sites for then called paupers, people with no family to care for their dead.   Link to a great article . No need for me to reinvent the wheel. Sorry for the small photo, but I think it accurately depicts the state of many of these old burial sites.

Click the above image for a story about vampires associated with the black death.