There are many corpses in the ocean, but nobody has any corpse-related qualms about swimming in the ocean. But most people would not swim in a pool with a corpse in it.
THIS IS SUCH A GOOD QUESTION. Using real life examples, the ocean definitely has thousands/millions? or human corpses, and maybe some really big, Ancient lakes/Rivers, have ten-hundreds of dead bodies (maybe thousands? if they’re really old) not that I’ve really thought about corpses in bodies of water before, but I feel comfortable after the fact, and would swim in oceans and lakes again, knowing there corpses.
Any body of water where I can see, smell or feel, or have seen smelt or felt a corpse, meaning any corpse I can distinguish as a corpse, to the horizon would be a body of water I could not swim in.
But in this circumstance, it’s a pool, and I know of the corpse in the pool. The pool would be shallow, and the corpse, on the other end of a pool. I could probably swim in a pool, quite uncomfortably, as long as I couldn’t see it when looking around all sides. It would also have to be really shallow, so I could stand up, assuming the corpse drifts over for a quick leaving protocal.
i dont think there are millions of cropses in the ocean ^^ it is not that common to die in the ocean for humans and then be not recoverable
animals leave corpses
I’m going to assume worst case scenario, rotting bloated corpse that stinks, is covered in flies, and is floating high and very visibly on the surface of the water.
In that case, I would need the pool to be probably Olympic sized and be on the long end away from the corpse.
My instinct says that would be enough for me to not be too horrified beyond the initial horror of seeing it in the pool.
How dead is the body?
Lake Erie. I’ve swam in it plenty of times, and I’m sure there are corpses in there.
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Is there incentive to swim in a smaller pool? Otherwise far enough not to smell it.
It basically needs to be a sea, or at least a very large lake, supporting an eco system of some kind if the body’s not going to removed at any point.
Freshly dead body I’d probably not worry about the size. Rotting I’d want at least two Olympic pools worth of distance and I’d still have my swimming ruined.
If it was the ocean I’d probably swim 100m away cause tides and wind are moving things around.
at least large enough for the corpse and me
