“We’re organisms; we’re conceived, we’re born, we live, we die, and we decay. But as we decay we feed the world of the living: plants and bugs and bacteria.”
Bill Bass
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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