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Stages of death
Pallor mortis
Livor mortis
Algor mortis
Rigor mortis
Putrefaction
Decomposition
Skeletonization
Fossilization
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The stages of death of a human being have medical, biochemical and legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds of remains of organisms. Forensic taphonomy is concerned with remains of the human body.[1]
^Sorg, Marcella H.; Haglund, William D. (13 December 1996). Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains. CRC Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-4398-2192-3.
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