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I think you’re referring to the phenomenon named “incorruptibility”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibil
by michaelsbradley 9mo ago
I think you’re referring to the phenomenon named “incorruptibility”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility
Recent case, died 2019, found not decomposed in 2023, had not been embalmed, unsealed wood coffin:
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/incorrupt-body-of-sister-wilhelmina-2024 https://www.ncregister.com/cna/incorrupt-body-of-sister-wilh...
- fpoling 9mo agoIn "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky describes sort-of the opposite process. A body of monk who had been considered a living saint started to smell on the second day after his dearth. That made everybody to realize that he was the opposite of the saint. And then another monk mentioned that eating sweets and cakes could not lead to sainthood.