They hadn't expected their consciousness to linger in their corpses while their flesh slowly decomposed.
The general feeling that one's flesh is decomposing is also classified under this type of hallucination.
This is usually accomplished by a process known as retting, where fully ripe red pepper berries are soaked in water for about a week, during which the flesh of the pepper softens and decomposes.
After the flesh had decomposed, the bones were gathered and placed in the ossuary, possibly to await resurrection, Mr. Greenhut and others say.
According to Berawan beliefs, the souls of the dead are released to the afterlife only when the flesh has decomposed.
Because the flesh had partly decomposed, experts took samples of hair, measurements of bones and X-rays of gum and teeth.
The flesh may have burned away in a lightning strike or decomposed when the surrounding soil thawed.
You know their flesh will decompose almost as soon as they die?
Their flesh constantly decomposes and falls off, and in order to keep themselves "beautiful" they hunt and kill young women/men, whom they flay.
Hair will remain on a corpse long after the flesh and even the clothes have decomposed.