Incorruptable bodies

[snerie]

I was just wondering how to you explain incorruptable corpes

[LadyForCamus]

Science.

[ApeNotKillApe]

Wait, you understood that?

[snerie]

Srsly though how do you explain it

[brewer]

Fantasy delusion.

[ApeNotKillApe]

Srsly though how do you explain it

I'm still waiting for you to explain it.

[RetiredArmy]

I think it was an attempt at humor (worked?). You often hear the term "incorruptible bodies" in media, meaning a group of people which cannot be corrupted (BULLSHIT!). The question, I assume, is to poke fun at the term itself.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Several explanations fairly leap to mind:

1.  Deliberate fraud.

2.  Tannins.

3.  Embalming.

4. Adipocere.

5.  Anaerobic environments.

It is important to remember that NO bodies are 'incorruptible'.  Due to conditions of burial or entombment, a (very) few select bodies may remain more or less incorrupt for a greater or less amount of time.  But the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox belief in the incorruptibility of the body of particularly 'holy' people is simply a holdover from a more ignorant and credulous age.

Boru

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I think it was an attempt at humor (worked?).  You often hear the term "incorruptible bodies" in media, meaning a group of people which cannot be corrupted (BULLSHIT!).  The question, I assume, is to poke fun at the term itself.

Then why was the question about 'incorruptible corpes ' [sic]?

Boru

[snerie]

fascinating Though most of the famous ones are made of wax.and they seem to be decaying at a slower rate  and the church does use artificial means to slow the progress.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

fascinating Though most of the famous ones are made of wax.and they seem to be decaying at a slower rate  and the church does use artificial means to slow the progress.

I'm unsure of what the decay rate of a wax body has to do with the dogma of incorruptibility.

[bolded bit] If you knew the answer, why would you ask the question?

Boru