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A body of water is the term used to refer to the mortal remains of a person found in a body of water . By staying in water ( lakes , rivers , oceans ), the process of putrefaction is usually very advanced.
As the decay progresses, it is often particularly difficult for the authorities to identify the dead person and to draw conclusions about the cause of death and a possible crime in the course of an autopsy . Due to the often very poor condition of water corpses, from a forensic medical point of view, often only the teeth , the clothing or the DNA can be used for relatively clear identification . In turbulent waters, additional traces of drift lead to post-mortem changes in the corpse. In the tragedy Hamlet , the character Ophelia , who drowns herself in madness, ends up as a body of water.
