Lovely I’m sure…gosh I had no idea. gag
The one I observed had been dead for only 28 hours - but decay begins the moment the heart stops - and there’s an awful lot of offal in there! 
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true, I once went to view a house that was for sale and someone had obviously died in there, the smell of death was overpowering, like nothing I’ve ever smelt and hope to never again. Never in a million years could I have bought that house, I couldn’t wait to get out.
Fascinating subject though for the pathologist , no two persons the same especially dealing with crime.
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Before I moved, there was a house next door in which someone had died. Someone else came to live in it, and they lasted only a few months before dying as well. I moved while the house was being redone for the next person so I don’t know how they fared. Neither occupant was older, or unwell or had drug problems either. All very strange. Bad energy I think.
I think it depends on how long the deceased had been there, my dad died they think around 8am after we’d left for work, wasn’t discovered until 5 pm when we got home, there was no untoward smell.
Reminds of an old boy i worked with, if you can smell it son, proves your not the one dead.
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A dead Rat is foul, too.
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Sorry Bruce, I’m totally, 100%, with Muddy except I think she’s actually understating the smell. They are vile, vile, vile. I tried one once on one of my many trips to Malaysia much to my Malaysian colleagues delight. It took me 3 days to get the taste out of my mouth and the smell off my hands.
However, one of the laboratories where I last worked had a fridge that was used to store nothing else but chemicals called mercaptans (hydrogen sulfide based compounds). This fridge was kept in a fume cupboard that was permanently switched on with the door closed because the smells emanating from it were shockingly bad. Even with these precautions you could still smell the bloody stuff out in the corridor.
BTW, a very, very small amount of a mercaptan is added to natural gas to give it a smell otherwise you wouldn’t be able to smell the gas if it was leaking.