What is there to know about it?įor the majority of us, contact with the bodies of people who have passed away begins and ends with the sad occasion of a funeral.Īnd even then, what we usually get is either an urn with the person’s cremated remains, or a body laid out neatly in a casket, having been carefully prepared for the occasion by a funeral home. Share on Pinterest Decomposition is what naturally occurs to bodies after death.