Re: Tattooing a dead body

"dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (philip cosson) wrote in message
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> > Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > 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
>
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> 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×

"check the blood for traces of the dyes" - how would you do that ?

A tattoo done on someone live six months ago would have healed, on a dead
person it would not.
Or are you suspecting the tattoist killed them ?

MB