While various belief systems offer explanations for the metaphysical experiences that follow, what happens to your physical body after death is all just a matter of science – and, largely, it’s not pretty.
A video from AsapScience explains the processes that occur from the moment of death to the final stages of decomposition.
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While various belief systems offer explanations for the metaphysical experiences that follow death, what happens to your physical body is a matter of science. A video from AsapScience explains the processes that occur from the moment of death to the final stages of
While various belief systems offer explanations for the metaphysical experiences that follow death, what happens to your physical body is a matter of science. A video from AsapScience explains the processes that occur from the moment of death to the final stages of decomposition.The news isn’t all bad, however; eventually, you just might end up among the flowers.

The first few hours after death...
In the initial seconds after death, oxygen is quickly depleted and brain activity surges.
The neurons then cease operations, and the brain stops giving off hormones which regulate the different functions of the body, though some may carry on for a few minutes. The remaining stores of ATP, which provides the energy for life, is used up, and the muscles relax.
This includes the sphincters (so there’s a strong possibility you will poop or pee yourself).

Dead bodies usually have a pale complexion, especially visible in light skinned people.
This is the result of lack of blood flow, and becomes apparent 15-20 minutes after death.
The heart is no longer pumping and thus blood is not circulating, so gravity drags it down toward the ground, causing blood to pool at the lowest point of the body. After a few hours, the body experiences red and purple discolouration from the settling blood.

By 12 hours after death, the body has reached maximum discolouration.This process, known as ‘livor mortis’ helps coroners and forensic investigators determine the approximate time of death.

During this time, another process has also begun.
In the three to six hours after death, a phenomenon known as ‘rigor mortis’ begins to set in.
Cellular organelles deteriorate from the lack of energy, and leak calcium into muscle cells, which binds to protein and causes muscles to contract.

The muscles become stiff, leaving the body stuck in position for the next 24-48 hours.

A MACABRE HISTORICAL TRADITION
In footage from KQED, the animals preserved in the ‘library of life’ at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley undergo a careful preservation process.
After the skin has been removed and samples collected, the bone needs to be cleaned of flesh.
At the museum, researchers have found a way to speed up the decomposition process using something more accurate than human hands: flesh-eating beetles.
These beetles can be seen swarming the carcasses of snakes, owls, and other animals sent to the museum, eating any flesh remaining until nothing is left but the bone.
The practice is both morbid and efficient, and has been in use for many years.
The museum first established its colony of flesh-eating Dermestid beetles in 1924.


A week after death, the beetles will lay eggs in the flesh of a corpse, and the fast-growing larvae, which will outgrow their skins six to eight times in a matter of days, soon emerge and consume all that remains.

The days following death
While these other processes are occurring, the body (if it hasn’t been chemically embalmed or otherwise preserved) has slowly been undergoing decomposition the entire time.
Cells in the body accumulate without proper blood flow, causing a rise in carbon dioxide gas, and a rise in the pH of tissues.
This weakens the cell membrane and they burst, spewing cytosol.
Cytosol contains proteins and enzymes, which breaks down the surrounding tissue, along with the help of more than 100 trillion microorganisms.
Then, the anaerobic bacteria (that which doesn’t need oxygen to survive) in the gastrointestinal tract eats through the abdominal organs.
This is a smelly process, known as putrefaction, and the foul odours released by the breakdown of amino acids attracts insects including mites, carrion beetles, and blowflies.
Blowflies then lay eggs in the rotting tissue, which hatch within a day.
The larvae – maggots – then eat the tissue until they mature.
Maggots can consume 60 percent of the body’s tissue in just a few weeks

Putrefaction produces foul odours, released by the breakdown of amino acids which attracts insects including mites, carrion beetles (pictured right), and blowflies. Blowflies then lay eggs in the rotting tissue, which hatch within a day. The larvae, maggots, pictured left, then eat the tissue until they mature
Between 20-50 days after death, butyric fermentation takes place and attracts beetle larvae, protozoa, and fungi. This is known as dry decay, and can occur over the course of a year. Carrion beetles, pictured above, are used to remove flesh from bones during a skeleton preparation at the Natural History Museum in Vienna

Between 20-50 days after death, butyric fermentation takes place and attracts beetle larvae, protozoa, and fungi. This is known as dry decay, and can occur over the course of a year. Carrion beetles, pictured above, are used to remove flesh from bones during a skeleton preparation at the Natural History Museum in Vienna

The first few weeks
Maggots can consume 60 percent of the body’s tissue in just a few weeks, and the resulting holes release decomposition fluid and gas.
Between 20-50 days after death, butyric fermentation takes place and attracts beetle larvae, protozoa, and fungi.
This is known as dry decay, and can occur over the course of a year.

A year and beyond
Whatever remaining parts of the body are eaten away by plants and animals over the subsequent years, even the skeletal remains.
If the body is left entirely at the mercy of the elements, every aspect of the body will be broken down.
Then, the molecules are recycled in nature.

WAOOO! WHAT IS LIFE WORTH WHEN WE ARE NOTHING BUT ORGANISM WAITING TO BE IN THE NEARER FUTURE..This up actually got me thinking that we are all part and percel that will eventually makes up the eco system...live is really vanity.


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