SAGRAM NOMICAN AIYER
Well, when a person dies, the body starts to autolyse, the chemicals, the enzymes in the body starts to disintegrate the cells.  Our gastro intestinal system also has micro organisms which would be responsible for breaking down the body, by using whatever contents are in the gut as nutrition, we progress along a sort of scale, it is a continual, where you may start with the early signs of decomposition which may be skin slipping, dehydration, marbling, skin slipping and things, and then you can have gaseous distension.  In an advance stage of decomposition, we have this bloating appearance, we have maggot infestation and the body then is consumed, or the soft tissue, shall I say, is consumed by the maggots and it is also destroyed by the automatic process of enzymes.
	When we refer to skeletonisation, we ...(intervention)