DeDee
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Just one quick question about gastric juices, if anyone knows. I do understand that the body stops digesting when it dies. But at the same time if you are left with small amounts of food, basically soaking in gastric acid, would it continue to break down? It's not steak it's pineapple?
Yes, it would sloooowly continue to break down but by different enzymes since Oxygen is no longer available for cell function but glucose is. There is a particular order in which the cells begin to break down and die then decompose. Special enzymes are sent out to annihilate the remaining cellular material. Bloating is a sign of this.
Someone who had recently ingested a big meal before dying would be a gold mine for bacteria during putrefaction which doesn't begin until the second day. Having a green abdomen is a sign of this.
By the time she was received at the morgue 24 hours after death, JonBenét's body would be placed in a cooler to impede the further decomposition of tissues.
Are you wondering if decomposition destroyed some stomach contents?