What really happens to a body in a casket? Does it truly decompose? Like what would happen if you opened a casket years later?

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In the movies when a casket is opened it’s just a skeleton. Is that really what happens? Does the body just cave in on itself?

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Depends on the treatment the body gets, the quality of the casket and the length of time it’s been buried. If you dig up a pre-embalming era body buried in a wood casket in normal ground all you’ll find is bones and bits of fabric. If the body was thoroughly embalmed then placed in a high tech alloy and plastic casket that is (mostly) sealed, you might not want to see it six months in. What you’d most likely find is a partially decomposed, partially mummified rotted corpse. six years later the casket will be mostly intact but the body will be a skeleton regardless.

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