60% of the time, it works every time

"Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker..."

Hah! Thanks for reminding me of that, that's some funny shit.

Necrotic tissue in a bed sore wound, right next to some old lady's nasty butthole and yeast infected vag that hasn't been cleaned since who knows when. Only thing in this business that has me close to gagging. My. God.

oh. that's. just. totally. wrong.

dead body. festering human body for a few days still is on top of my list.

Nursing homes are disgusting. People just wallowing in their own filth as they wait to die.

This is what I'm talking about. Sterile version:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/readers/2010...ers550ab_1.jpg

Real life: **NSFW**

Very sterile version :)

That's fucking horrific.

Bedsores amongst high dependency patients and the elderly is something our health authority is trying to get a handle on at the moment. The team that are looking at the issue did a presentation for us at scrutiny panel.

As for the smell of death, it depends on how long the body has been out in the open and how hot is the day.

Necrotizing fasciitis or days old death.

A few years before my dad passed away we were out on a spring walk and just chatting about this and that. I remarked on the smell of the air in spring and how I had just watched a science program about how our memory is more closely linked to our sense of smell than our vision. The program explained that a smell can recall more distant memories than a picture can.

My dad, who fought in the Pacific theater in WWII and never, ever, talked about his combat experience in my whole life said, "Yeah, I know what you mean. You'll never forget the smell of hundreds of bodies left out in the tropical sun for days because you didn't have time to bury them all."

That was all he ever said to me about his combat experience in the war.

Damn.

The inside of my left rubber glove smells like something died in it. :( Not the worst smell in the world, but gets an honorable mention in Bad Smells Weekly.

Good Lord, Bullitt! I think that is why I smoke. I don't WANT to live to be 80 something.

Probably deadness smells worse than anything.

Someone else's belly button smell is pretty gag-worthy.
I know.

One of the student nurses I worked with chased me around the pub with it, because she knew how easy it was to make me retch.