"Death Seal"
I’m an architect who offers paid consultation services online. One day, I received an anonymous question: “Can a body be completely sealed in concrete?”
I replied, “No, concrete expands and contracts with temperature changes, which creates gaps. Additionally, as a body decomposes, it produces liquids and gases, which will eventually break through the concrete, causing cracks.”
The person asked, “But isn’t concrete really strong?”
I’m an architect who offers paid consultation services online. One day, I received an anonymous question: “Can a body be completely sealed in concrete?”
I replied, “No, concrete expands and contracts with temperature changes, which creates gaps. Additionally, as a body decomposes, it produces liquids and gases, which will eventually break through the concrete, causing cracks.”
The person asked, “But isn’t concrete really strong?”
I answered, “Even so, it wouldn’t work. You’d need to first install a waterproof barrier, a gas-proof layer, and properly design expansion joints.”
I ended up designing a whole set of structural details for how to perfectly integrate a body with concrete. The person seemed pleased with the design and asked if I could give it a name. After thinking for a moment, I decided to call it "corpse concrete," inspired by the term “reinforced concrete.”