Outside of Whiterun, near the stable, there's a dead body in the road that has been there for months. He got killed by a Giant that was chasing me, and he's like ...starting to smell, maaaaan... I need to get rid of him. I put him in the back of the horse cart but he wouldn't stay, I put him up front sitting with the cart driver, he was there for weeks till I got tired of looking at the corpse, and now I dragged him over to a hay bale where he's laying spread eagle.
Why is he not disappeared or decomposed or whatever? I'm wanting to look for a shovel to try burying this bag o' maggots.....*pee yeew!*

Are you on the PC?

Open the console, click on the corpse (make sure it says the corpse or something like the NPC name on the display, and type disable

If you are on a console, then drag him to a river and drop him in.

Drag him to some water. Were I you, I'd pull him to the little stream outside of Whiterun and RP it as if he was a thief that drowned trying to escape authorities and eventually he flowed out

Ok I thought of something: Dragged the body to the stream, found a relatively deeper part of it and dropped him there, then used a resurrect (Not usually into that sort of thing though) spell on him, he turned to a pile of dust and if the pile doesn't disappear it's Ok, it's underwater.

Can't wait until I get a pc for that sort of thing.

If you drag the body into the water will that make them disappear?

You can also do this:

Skjorr came back to life and there's three of this one guy I stole a horse for.

I think I need to get off the SKOOMA!!!!11one

Yes, I would also like to know this. I'm on the 360 so can't use the console to destroy objects.

Alvor died in a dragon attack, and has been lying face-down outside the Riverwood Trader for months now. If I drag his body into the river and he floats away, will this actually destroy him, or will he still be residing somewhere in the game memory?

Skyrim dones't have enough microganism and insects to speed up those bio-decomposing process. just be patient.

I got a dead chicken in Whiterun (from some mod when it was alive), and I accidentally killed it testing an axe.

After seeing it laying there every time I passed what's her names smith and weapon shop, I put in a mod that gave me more bushes in whiterun and then dumped him in the shrubs.

A cell is reset if not visited for 14 in game days. if you travel to the Whiterun area quite often, the timer countdown will be restarted each time you land into that cell.

For example, I use the dragonmasks temple in Labyrinthian as a stash for my loot, as the containers there are static. The trolls roaming the area usually respawn evey 14 days. Since I've started travelling there to unload all my loot, the few trolls up there stay dead and the cell is not reset because of my going there quite often (every 3-4 ingame days).

HAHAHAHA man this is so funny, THE DEAD GUY LIKE YOU DUDE! HAHA

Ahhh that's happened to me all three stand near the whiterun stables I tried killing them but they wont die and the gaurds dont seem keen on me chopping people up with a great sword.

Theres this corpse laying spread eagle in underwear right out side the assassins guild and its been there for a while lol. I wonder if I should dispose of the body as well if it does not disappear soon.

Probably not, but at least your not tripping over it each time you go to town.

That happened to me too D: i mean skjor came back to life! Then i can ask him for work,thats so weird.

One thing that made me laff is hearing those two redguard guys questioning a woman and giving it the she hasnt got the scar line. When I investigated to see if any heads needed removing from shoulders she was only in her undercrackers and it was snowing.

I saw a corpse outside Riverwood once and spent 15 minutes trying to hang him on the fishing rack right outside the village. He is the only NPC that have dissapeared to me.. The game is messing with me.. o.o

Yeah I was just curious I did not think they would.

Just wait for the guy wheeling a kart banging pots together and saying "Bring out your dead!"

Why do you want him gone so bad?