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Beauty to ashes
No one is ugly, beauty turn to ashes, for like a sheep, every living soul is laid in the grave; and death feeds on them; the maggots have dominion over them in the morning till the flesh is wholly decomposed; and their beauty is consumed in the grave, far from their dwelling.

No one is beautiful, beauty turn to ashes, as the once clear face, is sunken into the skull and the beauty is indeed turned to ashes as it takes approximately 4 minutes from the moment a person has breathed their last for the shortage of oxygen in their body to kick off a series of events happening at the microscopic level.

No one is ugly, beauty turn to ashes, as the levels of carbon dioxide and acidity rise in the blood stream, and toxic wastes buildup, poisoning these cells. The enzymes within the cells then, begin to eat away at them and the organs with high concentrations of enzymes and water such as the brain and the liver, are ground zero for this process.

No one is beautiful, beauty turn to ashes, as the most visible signs of death is within 10 minutes of death when the eyes cloud over as oxygen and fluids are no longer flowing to the corneas.

Beauty indeed turns to ashes as Calliphoride commonly known as Blowflies arrives within minutes of death or exposure and deposits its eggs 1-3 hours after death. And there is one notorious fly, Conicera tibialis also known as the Coffin fly that follows the body upto a depth of 2 metres or approximately 6.33 feet just to lay its eggs on the buried bodies.

No one is ugly, beauty turn to ashes, as the body goes through autolysis or self digestion as soon as blood circulation and respiration stops, the body has no way of getting oxygen or removing wastes. Excess carbon dioxide, then causes an acidic environment, causing membranes in cells to rupture releasing enzymes that begins eating the cells from the inside out. The Rigor mortis also causes the muscles to stiffen resulting to creation of blisters filled with nutrients rich fluid on the internal organs and the skin surface thus the body looks like, it has a sheen due to the ruptured blisters.

No one is beautiful, beauty turn to ashes, as leaked enzymes from autolysis begin to produce many gases. The sulfur containing compounds that the bacteria release, causes skin discoloration and these excess gases, makes the body to double in size, and then explode.

No one is ugly, beauty turn to ashes, as the active microorganisms and bacteria produces extremely unpleasant odor called putrefaction. The fluids released through orifices indicates the beginning of active decay as organs, muscles and skin become liquefied and then the hair, bones, cartilage and other soft tissues decompose till beauty become ashes and there, the skeleton is left for unknown beauty as, skeletonization depend on the loss of organic(collagen) and inorganic components whose decomposition time frame is not known.

Beauty indeed, without doubt, turn to ashes!

© Geoffrey K