This is all that I really feel I need to post right now...

[fianasidhe]

"...and in fact some museums have large desmestid [sic] colonies used specifically for defleshing carcasses." ~http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/03/how_to_rot_down_dead_bodies.php

Who knew?

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[watersong73]

...Um. Ew. Fascinating, but ew.

[thanate]

Um, I did, actually. (I've also seen recommended the idea of putting down plastic sheeting about a foot below your vegetable garden, setting in anything you want to rot on top of that, and then planting your tomatoes or whatever on top of it, so that you get fertilizer out of it as well.)

[fianasidhe]

:P You would. I bet landscaping paper would work too. (I have landscaping paper on the brain because I've been digging it up.)