The man grabbed a piece of newspaper off the kitchen table and wrapped it around the decaying flesh.
Meat, in the same vein, can be called "nothing more than decaying flesh."
While doing so, his decaying flesh falls away, revealing a healthy body beneath.
Trooper Ruane said he had smelled decaying flesh once before in 1990.
There was an unpleasant smell of decaying flesh in the air.
But he made himself stare at the decaying flesh.
The odor of decaying flesh is like no other.
Other theories claim that the Nuppeppō is actually decaying flesh.
"My room, at the time, expelled an odor of decaying flesh."
He does, seeing the same decaying, maggot-infested flesh that Fred saw earlier.