

Dermestids are happy to wade into a gruesome, sticky mass of decaying flesh and delicately clean around even the tiniest of bones.īack to Mom’s head.

The subsequent de-fleshing would probably involve boiling and/or dermestid beetles, incredible creatures used in museums and forensic labs to delicately eat the dead flesh off a skeleton without destroying the bones. This post was excerpted from Doughty’s upcoming book.Īs a funeral professional, I frankly have no idea what equipment a proper decapitation requires.
