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The scent of a body varies depending on a person's body fat, he said, even if they have decomposed for the same amount of time.

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He described thousands of bodies lying in front of houses and "the smell of gas and decomposed bodies".

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Photographs released by Gaza's medical authorities show some of the bodies badly decomposed, and arriving in civilian clothes or naked except for underwear, some with multiple signs of injury.

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But about three years after death, once the organic matter has decomposed, loved ones break open the front slab of the chamber.

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But all of it came to an abrupt halt last month with the discovery of a severely decomposed body in the front trunk of his Tesla.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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