Re: Tattooing a dead body

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (philip cosson) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > There is an inflammatory reaction following tatooing, as well as mild 
> > scarring in many cases. "Scabbing" occurs in new tattoos in response to 
> > the insult to tissue in a living person. This is not going to occur in a 
> > dead body. Inks and dyes alter in their intensity with aging of the 
> > tattoo this would be advantageous in aging the tattoo.
> > 
> 
> Hi, Anybody got any more help for me? OK with the inflamatory response
> and the scabbing I can tell between a *recent* tatto on a live person
> and a tattoo carried out after death. But can I definitively tell if
> the tattoo is 6 months old or after death?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Philip


hi Philip - i am no pathologist, but -
- they could check the blood for traces of the dyes - if they've made
it that far, the vic was alive. - mmmmm? - Ъ×