Asklemmy

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.

How dead is the body?

Is there incentive to swim in a smaller pool? Otherwise far enough not to smell it.

Lake Erie. I've swam in it plenty of times, and I'm sure there are corpses in there.

Large enough I am not faced with the reality of a corpse.

I don't see any corpses when I'm at the beach. I know they're out there in theory, but they're a distant enough concept I don't worry.

Great Lake sized lake with body on other side? Same.

A small lake/pond where I can see the area in which the corpse is floating? Perhaps even smell it? Or speak with a person who saw it? Hard pass.

Olympic sized pool? I can see the corpse. Hard pass.

at least large enough for the corpse and me

You've already swam in a pool with a corpse (rodent, bird, insect, etc.) that's what the filters are for.

Fresh or rotting?

Jacuzzi size.

Depends a lot on how long the corpse had been there, and what state it's in. My local 25 m x 6 Lane pool, I'd get in it with someone who just had a heart attack. Fresh corpse but shot, I'd have to play it by ear. Some post-apocalyptic scenario where the filtration system and everything has been offline for months and the whole place has turned into John Doe broth... probably pass...I mean there'd have to be a pretty good reason and a way to rinse off afterwards.

For fun? Uhh, kilometers. It needs to be far enough away to become abstract. And I do find the ocean slightly gross and pest-ridden already.

For a good reason, like someone is paying me? A bathtub if fresh, typical public pool size if not, and I'm showering right after.

Why on earth would I do that?

For a huge pot of money, to escape a rabid musk ox?