Complex sentence: Pessler's colleague, Pastor Beck, suggested that coffins should have a small trumpet-like tube attached and each day the local priest could check the state of putrifaction of the corpse by sniffing the odours emanating from the tube.
Split into simpler sentences: Pessler's colleague, Pastor Beck, suggested that coffins should have a small trumpet-like tube attached. Each day the local priest could check the state of putrifaction of the corpse by sniffing the odours emanating from the tube.