Dr. G Medical Examiner - The Decomp Room

Dr. G describes one of the more gruesome aspects of the job.

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[dwainey310]

i have a huge respect for people like Dr. G .. im a mortician and i know what it smells like but she stands thru it all to help people bring together the last part of the days or moments b4 a person dies .. Kudos for people like you!

[emeraldvenus]

Thank God for people like Dr. G. How else would we know how someone died? I suppose having smelled the strong odor of decomp for so many years, may have desensitized the olfactory nerve to the point where there is little to no sense of smell. Perhaps it's psychological. I can't even begin to imagine what 200 lbs of rotting hamburger would smell like, yet alone a rotting corpse. I have great respect for Dr. G. She's helped solve many cases related to accidents, disease & murder.

[Askimoula]

On a side note, burying is much better for the environment than cremation, as long as it's done within 24 hours of death and there are no fancy chemicals involved.

[Askimoula]

@tbursee

That's why I tend to think that women are better placed for medical work than men as we have to deal with the smell of rotting blood on a monthly basis, especially if you're into the hiking/camping scene with no showers in sight for days at a time. And if you get food poisoning & have diarrhoea at the same time, plus a yeast infection, well, that pretty much approximates the smell of dead, rotting rat corpses, such as you'd get trapped in between the walls of some buildings.

[Askimoula]

She looks wonderfully normal.

[nakkoyah]

@dwainey310 Hi I saw you said that u were a mortician. I'd like to become a mortician. how many years would i have 2 go 2 school for it?

[wilkyns13]

@avonee1976 Yep, human excrement smells even worse (in my opinion).

[wilkyns13]

@Cdeanne Smells like nothing if the person died on natural causes... but the smell really depends of the way it died.

[wilkyns13]

@lordvladislas As a mortician I use Vicks Vaporub when working with decomposing cases! :)

[lordvladislas]

isn't there a oil like substance people put under their noses???

[kompkari923]

I actually kind of like working with the decomps.. you get used to the smell and it's really interesting to see what can happen to a body under different un natural conditions. Ugh it's alot of residency though!!!

[Cdeanne]

@MsSlayerized666 yeah, so I'm guessing 10 times worse? lol..