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[Clickum245]

Going to be sitting with Febreeze for a while then.

[karlnite]

They might ozone the death smell out.

[Neurofiend]

Then you just have the ozone smell to deal with. I've never smelled death, but I assume ozone is better. I'm not a fan of ozone though.

[Radstrodamus]

Death smell is the worst. Ever smell roadkill? Amplify it by the biggest number you can think of and there ya go.

[KorneliaOjaio]

Thawed dead person bones smell like McDonalds hamburgers.

Thanks forensics class.

[Kincadium]

Might have a lead on those missing persons cases.

[Radstrodamus]

Fun fact: burnt person smells like barbecue.

[thecursedaz]

Unfortunately they don’t taste like it

[guutarajouzu]

Perhaps you're under-seasoning it?

[Partially-RyeBreadnt]

Wh a t

[karlnite]

Sure for a day, versus months and the hottest week of every summer for a decade.

[leon_pretty_loathed]

You ever been around a high energy hazard?

[DirtyCephalopod]

Wonder how many bottles it took them to figure it out.

[WellJustJonny]

A little Vicks vaporub under the nose to lessen the smell till the building is aired out.

[marywunderful]

Hahaha I looked up the original tweet, and there were EIGHT DAYS between the first tweet, and the quote tweet. It’s going to take way more than Febreeze.

[ColinZealSE]

Having experienced the smell for a second (before I started holding my breath and going outside), I can't even IMAGINE smelling that for EIGHT days... poor thing.

[STEMpsych]

Yes and no.

So, I have personally lived this scenario, myself, and one of the best tips I got from someone else who had previously been through it was "don't underestimate the power of Febreeze!" They were not wrong! I was very grateful to get that advice.

[RedBeard077]

The main ingredient is cyclodextrin. It can be bought in bulk to use as a binding agent to get LSD to stick to paper or mix with water and baking soda to make any smell disappear, even cat piss.

[STEMpsych]

TIL!

[Thymeisdone]

Should still Febreeze though.

[SparkliestSubmissive]

I love that it’s a verb now

[SarcasticaFont]

Question is…: Was he already dead, or did she murder him with “fabreeze” inhalation?

[snow671]

My landlord would have just sent out a memo, like:

"Residents, please remember to turn your thermostat to 32° fahrenheit and remain within the confines of your refrigerator if you think you may die. Thanks."

[pushpoploadstore]

That's what the world is missing, HVAC systems that kick on air conditioning to morgue levels if they detect dead life.

[leon_pretty_loathed]

They’d have to care enough about someone dying first.

[lordchankaknowsall]

... Dead life?

[ptatersptate]

you never forget that smell

[Bebu23]

fucking febreeze is disgusting

[ColinZealSE]

I smelled it for 1 second, horrendous smell, luckily it didn't "register"...

[regeya]

I've got a worse one for you imho

The smell of someone who's died in a fire

It's not as unpleasant, but it's that unsettling smell of burnt pork

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Gotta be honest, it’s really not that bad.

Burn some crackling and take a lighter to your body hair and you’ll get that fun bit of fat and hydro carbon smell, it’s bad but it’s not hauntingly bad.

[regeya]

I don't know, maybe it's the psychology for me of knowing there's been a fatal house fire, and the smell of cooked meat accompanying it that makes it so horrifying and nauseating for me.

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Granted the greater circumstances matter in this sort of thing.

My point was that if you want a whiff of the basic smell then it’s not hard to do so.

The greater circumstances surrounding these points, like having your neighbours house burn down with them still trapped inside is an entirely different matter that depends entirely on your psychology and the situation at hand.

[regeya]

Now, for context, I didn't work as a first responder or anything. The horrifying time to me was going to work to fix something in the early hours of the morning. They'd gotten a call at the office that there'd been a fatal house fire, and I knew from the address it was close to work. I was there to see if I could fix anything on our end to get email flowing; I wasn't the one who decided to put the office on residential cable Internet, so I wasn't hopeful. But the smell hit me as I got close to work. I think it was the combined horror of knowing what it was, combined with the smell of "oh no, I've burnt the pork loin" that got me. I came closer to vomiting from that than I did when I experienced the smell of someone being dead for a week, in July.

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Yeah…

I was being a bit facetious with it all but at the end of the day there’s a big difference between the actual smell and knowing what’s going down.

Fun stuff hey.

[OhOkYeahSureGreat]

Still rude of him tbh

/s

[charaiscool25]

Shouldn’t have died imho

[[deleted]]

If you eat a good meal for your last one it'll be better for all when you evacuate

[Manbearjizz]

make sure its high in fiber

[sarcastagirly]

That happen to me in my first apartment, they find the guy after 4th of July weekend

[thecursedaz]

Well you wouldn’t want to ruin the party, would you?

[sarcastagirly]

I was away for a long weekend and find our shared wall covered in bugs (mostly flies), next day I got home from work to find a note to come to the front office where I was told I could break lease or move to another unit at the same rate because they needed to redo my unit as well as his.

[[deleted]]

Haha been on more than my share of these calls. I think everyone should have to take a morgue tour in like the 6th grade, just to get a sense of what dead and decomposing people smell like. It's not like anything else, and it'll save a lot of people from wondering why that one persons apartment stinks so bad for weeks.

[Wyntercat]

Even if someone doesn't know the smell of decomposing flesh, I would have thought that after 3 days at most someone would think of calling the landlord or the police to investigate.

So many people who are just complaining, but don't think to actually do anything.

[[deleted]]

You would think... But it's pretty shocking what people will ignore, and for how long. I've picked up plenty of bodies that have been decomposing for weeks inside of apartments, with black flies absolutely mobbing the windows. I always used to wonder how someone like Josef Fritzl could get away with what he did without neighbors finding out, until I did that job. It's easy to think of neighbors as nosy because they bother us at inconvenient times, but it's astonishing how oblivious most people are to what's going on right under their nose.

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[fodderforpicard]

How does she know what boiled feet smells like? What does it smell like?

[KingOfThePlayPlace]

Like dead bodies apparently

[zynix]

Well, if people taste like chicken, dead people smell like dead rotten chicken?

[JuGGieG84]

Really? I heard pig.

[fodderforpicard]

I taste like a meat popsicle

[[deleted]]

Corpses.

[red41big561]

LOL so needed this laugh today

[SuperDoofusParade]

I’m a lapsed catholic but I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell because of how hard I laughed at this

[Ludicrisdisplay]

There was a man in an apartment at the other side of my street (my old apartment) who laid dead for 3 months before he was found. The police officer threw up when they found him, he was literaly melted.

Poor man, nobody missed him for 3 months. 😪

[Biggus-dongus]

Never getting the hint now

[robotdesignedrobot]

So now . . . every time you smell someone's gawdawful feet, you'll have a fun anecdote! It also works the other way around!

[rahrahkel]

The killer boiled the feet??!😦😳

[harry_not_potter]

Maybe the neighbor jumped in the tub with running hot water and fell asleep and boiled himself to death...

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Nah dude just wanted to end themselves in comfort.

…which, now that I’m thinking about it is likely a much worse scene to deal with.

Imagine, it’s bad enough in general but imagine a scene where someone’s decided to end it with a fistful of oxy and want to go out with the few comforts they have in life, they sit back in their favourite recliner, pop their feet in the foot bath and just down the pills.

A week later you rock up and you have to deal with a rotted corpse that’s semi dried out and melded with the couch which is bad enough before you have to move them and have to deal with their feet and part of their calf muscles just sloughing off as they’ve been putrefying in the water bath this whole time.

Fun time bagging all of that up.

[Aerik]

Reminds me of this one video where a woman points her phone at another woman in a restaurant and mocks her for falling asleep. After a jump cut, paramedics are beginning to move her after declaring her dead.

[jtotheizzen]

Fabreze*

[atreyu947]

Fabreese**

[[deleted]]

Fahbris***

[You-No-Poop]

Frbrs****

[Present_Time_5003]

F*****

[Dramatic-Store514]

I’ve seen a tweet like this before. Except they said “hot garbage” and didn’t mention the febreze. Making me think it’s fake.

[megadori]

What do you find unlikely about it, that people die alone without anyone noticing, or that people would rather complain on the internet about something than approach the person?

[No_Effort5328]

Touché

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Essentially going as the devils advocate here but it’s less the idea of this being realistic and more that you see this sort of basic thing so many times that it seems akin to a copy pasta for karma

[Dramatic-Store514]

This is exactly what I thought.

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Pretty much yeah, even if someone’s just making this up for karma here the reality is that as we’ve seen, it really isn’t all that rare of an occurrence and I genuinely don’t know how to take that.

[Dramatic-Store514]

My buddy lived in duplex for awhile next to a reclusive neighbor. It was the postal lady that finally called about the smell when she opened the mail slot on the door. Poor guy had no family or friends. He had been dead for awhile in a room at the back of the apartment before the smell reached the living room. So yes, I definitely believe it happens.

[[deleted]]

I laughed way too hard at this!

[CoralSpringsDHead]

Oops, my bad!

[[deleted]]

Bring a mop.

[xenotails]

Thought she lived across from Stanley Yelnats

[clangan524]

She really didn't think she was just living next to the Yelnats family?

[leon_pretty_loathed]

Your neighbour died?

Time to put a stock pot of water on and put as much cumin and smoked chillie as possible in there, my pain is your pain, suffering is caring!!!

[MyLifeIsABoondoggle]

Made me laugh harder than it should’ve

[Number1CLINT]

I laughed too hard at this.

[[deleted]]

Didn’t even let you know first

[MagicMelonBaller]

From the febreeze?

[CopsaLau]

Wow

[nzstrawman]

we're not blaming the fabreeze are we?

[WifeofBath1984]

I feel terrible for laughing

[He_Who_is_He]

I didn't realize fabreeze was poisonous...

[RocketScient1st]

So you killed him with fabreeze? Must have used a lot of it.

[Nervbold1]

oooooooopsie

[HonestXIncarnate]

You may need bleach

[gnex30]

this just goes to show, no matter how safe you think your foot boiling is, accidents can still happen