Talk:Bloodbending/@comment-110.55.8.139-20110407045945/@comment-94.11.11.218-20110413201536

When the body dies, it just rots away. While it MIXES with the soil, and a lot of soil is just dead things, it's not actually EARTH, which is what earthbenders can use. They'd be able to bend bones after they become fossils, but there'd be no point since they're so fragile. It'd be essentially just animating bone-shaped rocks.

However, blood bending WOULD be able to do corpse bending, since a recently deceased body still contains water. But that's the only way someone could bend a dead body.