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A body bag is a non-porous bag designed to contain a human body, used for the storage and transport of corpses. Body bags are also sometimes used for the storage of corpses within morgues. Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ...
With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. ...
A morgue is a building or room (as in a hospital) used for the storage of human remains. ...
In modern wars, body bags have been used to contain the bodies of dead soldiers. Governments typically have reserves of body bags, both for anticipated wars and natural disasters.
During the cold war vast reserves of body bags were built up in anticipation of millions of fatalities from nuclear war. This was the subject of Adrian Mitchell's haunting protest poem "Fifteen Million Plastic Bags". For the generic term for a high-tension struggle between countries, see cold war (war). ...
Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ...
Adrian Mitchell (born 1932) is a British poet and dramatist. ...
With the addition of provision for breathing, specially adapted body bags are also used for the BDSM practice of mummification. A collar is a common symbol of BDSM. BDSM is a term which describes a number of related patterns of human sexual behaviour. ...
Mummification as a BDSM bondage practice involves restraining a living persons body in a non-damaging way by wrapping it head to toe in materials like saran wrap, clingfilm, cloth, bandages, rubber strips, plaster bandages, bodybags, or straitjackets. ...
The term body bag is also used for fashion or other bags worn on the body, and this sense has no connection with either of the two above senses.
Body bags are often portrayed in films and television as being made of a heavy black plastic. While this was originally the case many years ago, lightweight white body bags are now predominantly used. This change was made because it is much easier to spot a piece of evidence that may have been jostled from the body in transit on a white background than on a black background.
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