In most cases, if you’ve reached rigor Mortis, that usually lasts like 48 hours? Starting around hour 4 of death. You can’t really tell down to the exact minute when someone has died. Especially if you’re basing it off rigor mortis. Sine that lasts almost 2 days. Then other things happen after, and so on. Its basically just a guess, based on where the body is at in decomposition. But could be days off the actual time of death.
Edit: you should look up ‘ask a mortician’ on YouTube. Shes very informative.
Different things happen to a body depending on how long it’s been dead. Blood stops circulating and starts pooling in certain areas. Muscles get rigid. Temperature drops. Skin dries out. After a while, bacteria in the gut cause inflation of the gut, stomach content starts digesting itself, cells deprived of oxygen and nutrients die and start falling apart. Certain insects lay eggs in favorable environment. Etc etc etc; these things happen predictably and relatively consistently, depending on the environment.
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