I agree. The worst I ever encountered was a suicide victim that had been in the river for several weeks, but then started floating from bacterial gas formation, and then beached. I don"t know how long the body had laid in the shallow water half exposed to the Summer sun, but he was REALLY RIPE! When we were trying to load the body into the body bag, his arm came loose in my hands. Really grossed me out! Especially since in those days, we had not thought to carry surgical gloves and were bare handed. I washed my hands over and over after that situation.
I used to carry a small jar of Vick"s Vapor Rub for such occasions. A little dab of Vick"s in each nostril really helped deal with the smell. I saw other guys put gasoline on their mustaches to mask the putrid body odors. It was an icky part of the job, and somebody had to do it.
A failed freezer with meat in it awhile is pretty bad too, and that is usually inside a building. My brother had a freezer that got unplugged, that he emptied and then left outside and open for a couple of years. It still stunk after all that time.
I always wondered if it is psychological or a physical fact that the odor of rotting flesh seems to stay with me for quite a while after I have come in contact with the odor, even if there is no possibility of there being any fluids on me. That was one part of working that I did not miss after I retired.
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