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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

.....how would a coroner go about removing a skeleton without destroying the body? I'm pretty sure this is nowhere in a coroner job description. I'd tell him the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

So what you're saying is that Anon just asked the wrong person.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would assume you would need to dissolve everything but the bones, unless you want to start cutting and peeling and pulling and scraping.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They use special beetles. Eats all the meat off nice and clean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I went to the Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City and they have an area in the entrance where you can watch the beetles do their thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That would be something worth seeing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True or not this is now a fact in my mind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

They don't just throw a whole body in with them. But they do use them to finish cleaning the bones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You just need a straw and some patience.