What happens to your body when you die?
Well, because your heart is no longer pumping, your blood stops flowing and coagulates - forming clots and becoming really thick and lumpy. As as your blood is no longer circulating, it settles where gravity forces it to – a process called post-mortem hypostasis or livor mortis. Without circulation, your body temperature also drops and your muscles stiffen in the process known as rigor mortis Now, obviously you aren’t breathing any more. No respiration means no oxygen is getting to your cells. Without oxygen in your cells, the mitochrondria inside can’t make ATP
What is ATP?
A chemical used for a host of cellular tasks. If your cells can’t make ATP, your cells stop working. In other words, you’re dead. With your cells now, they start to break down and release all sorts of stuff including enzymes. That makes for an environment that is very attractive to bacteria and fungi, which eventually enter the mix and start decomposing, or putrefying the body. This process certainly isn’t pretty, but it’s definitely normal. Now before you’re buried or cremated, your family may want a funeral. To slow the decomposition process and keep you looking tidy, chemistry comes in handy via a process called embalming. The embalming process happens in two steps. First, your body is going to be loaded full of preservative chemicals like formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde using a pump and your circulatory system.
Next, all your stomach contents get sucked out and all the dark nether regions untouched by the circulatory system are filled up with the same chemicals. While the embalming process does offer more time for your family to bid farewell to you that mostly looks like you, it is only temporary, then it’s back to decomposition. During the decomposition process, a huge array of chemical by products are spewed out by bacteria. Two in particular, putrecine and cadaverine smell absolutely disgusting, I mean really, they smell like a dead body. Sulfur containing compounds are also produced, which smells like rotten egg and skunk, along with countless other gases that work together, to temporarily make you more bloated than you ever were while living.
So, we’ve heard that some say that your hair and nails keep growing after you die. But, “The hair on your head grows a tiny amount everyday, But when you die those processes stop. For thousands of years, people thought that the dead’s hair and fingernails kept growing after death, because that’s what it looked like to the naked eye. But it’s not that the hair and nails are growing, it’s that the rest of your body is shrinking. When you die, your body dehydrates and the formally moisturized plump skin shrivels. Revealing not growth but what was already there to begin with.” Okay, so now you’ve got a good sense of what happens when you can sense no more. And while it may seem like a dark topic, just remember, live life to the fullest!
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