About the grave wax that can't be cleaned away per the DT expert and can by the pros.
Seems to me that all autopsy equipment including the autopsy table would have to be thrown out after each autopsy of an individual that hadn't died in hospital if that were the case. All gowns, scrubs worn, shoes would have to be tossed.
IMO grave wax can be removed by cleaning fluids designed to clean greasy stains on surfaces like the nylon carpet, that don't absorb fluids.
If not then the whole decomp cleaning industry is a complete scam.
The whole analogy about needing to replace the carpet in the car if ever you had a huge decomp stain was insane IMO. Who buys or drives a car that housed a dead body, stained or not but surely stinky?
I don't know if I can completely agree with you.....Being a Paramedic and having been on multiple death calls, the smell of decomp is horrendous! I have been on two un-witnessed death scenes where both victims had been not been seen for over two weeks and one of them was in enclosed in a house with no AC on, here in Florida and in the summer. After only having brief contact with the deceased, my partner and I both had to throw away our uniforms away once we got back to our station. The smell had permeated our clothes, hair, nasal passages etc.. Days later after multiple showers you could still smell the "decomp" in my hair. The stain of the deceased had actually embedded into the terrazzo floor. Everything in that house would have to be thrown away because the smell would have permeated everything that it could......no company could clean that up.
The last call I went up to the door of the apartment, I noticed the smell along with the flies all over the inside of the windows and quickly backed away and allowed the fire department to make forced entry in complete fire gear and breathing apparatus. Only one Paramedic/Firefighter made entry to confirm the death, the rest were getting sick..............Florida requires that a Paramedic must confirm the death even if it is obvious...but like they have been saying decomp is a smell you will never forget. God bless the police and coroner who spent more time with the decedent than we had to.
Also having been on several autopsies here in Orlando; everything is pretty much disposable in ME's examining room (instruments, gowns, booties, masks etc). As a matter of fact there is a "special isolated room, climate controlled that has a reverse air system" in the morgue that is especially used just for decomposed bodies so the smell does not waft throughout the morgue. The table is metal and the deceased is opened and examined usually in the bag that they were brought in.....after the autopsy is complete the bag is zipped and remains at the morgue until pickup by the funeral home, obviously someone who is that decomposed would be cremated, unless objected to by the family.
And in regards to buying a car with a decomp stain in it from a dead body...How would you know??? CarFax? If you remember early on the tow truck driver said that the cars that he received that had decomposing bodies in them had to be
destroyed?
And yes you are right there are "cleaning companies" but most of time they clean crime scenes ( gunshots, suicides by gun, stabbings) they clean the aftermath of death. But once the decomp fluid has embedded itself in carpet, wood, mattress you will not get it out...it has to be replaced.
But remember this is only my opinion.........:cow:
Have a good day:seeya:
