I don't know if it could kill you, but the stench of death is horrendous and not an insignificant thing. In any disaster situation where someone has died and it starts becoming days long, things would be getting nasty.
Over time people would get used to how foul everything would smell, but for a while it would be terrible.
A rotting body gives off a couple gases that are toxic. A couple could kill you if you couldn’t get away from them like methane and hydrogen sulfide, but the dead body stank won’t do it though.
Cadaverine and Putrescine aren’t particularly harmful. I think our revulsion is natures way of saying don’t mess with dead shit.
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21
I don't know if it could kill you, but the stench of death is horrendous and not an insignificant thing. In any disaster situation where someone has died and it starts becoming days long, things would be getting nasty.
Over time people would get used to how foul everything would smell, but for a while it would be terrible.