if someone died in 1930 would their corpse be still in tact?

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Josh

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there is this cemetery near where i live that is extremely old and noone is burried there anymore. one grave is sinking in, and there is a hole that leads into darkness below it. so i got a flashlight and shined it in there. and i am almost certain that i saw part of the face and an eye starring up. i got this cold feeling inside me, and freaked out but then started thinking, would that still be there? or would it all be dust and bones? so i was wondering if the headstone said he died in 1930, would the eyeballs still be in tact? or is my imagination just making me think i saw that?
 
You have to remember that a lot of people were not embalmed during the 1930's so their body is mostly bones and dust after 80 years of being buried
 
Eyeballs are one of the first things to go. Even if conditions were right for natural mummification, the eyes would still be gone.

So whatever it is you saw, it wasn't the eyes of someone who died in 1930.

As mentioned, he likely wasn't even embalmed, but its important to remember that even if he was embalmed, he would have decomposed by now. making a body last forever is *very* difficult. Eva Peron's body was given such a treatment, and I hear she looks as if she died yesterday, but that process was very expensive and took a year to complete. It was a very one-of-a-kind treatment.
 
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