When I was an EMT we got a call for a house that smelled really bad. This was in the country so the houses were far apart and the neighbors called it in. When we arrived in the ambulance we could smell it inside the ambulance as soon as we turned into the driveway. I remember because we had just picked up lunch and I was eating fried chicken. The smell was so bad I couldn’t eat fried chicken for years without thinking about it. The man lived alone and had no family and no one to check on him. He died watching TV and was still sitting in his recliner. He’s body had decomposed enough that his head sank down into his chest cavity. It was the most awful thing I ever smelled. The coroner later told us he had died around 6 months ago. In all my years I’ve never seen a naturally mummified body. The humidity in southern Louisiana is too high to allow it to happen naturally.