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Your heart
stops beating.
Your body
cools down from 98.6 to room temperature.
This is called algor mortis.
In Latin,
“algor” means coldness and “mortis”
means of death. So, Algor Mortis is known as “THE DEATH CHILL”.
The next
stage is Rigor Mortis. Because your
heart is no longer moving your blood through your body, your blood changes from
liquid to semi-solid. This is called
coagulation.
Your blood has thickened in your veins, arteries
and capillaries. So, your whole body
stiffens. That is why dead bodies are
nicknamed “STIFFS”.
Your will
experience rigor mortis, 2 to 6 hours after you die.
Gravity
causes your blood to drain to the lowest part of your body. Since you died here, in this room, sitting up,
your legs and feet and hips are the lowest parts of your body. The blood in your torso drains and settles
around your hips. And, the blood in your
legs drains to your feet.
Your hips,
legs and feet will turn blueish purple. This stage is called “Liver Mortis”. In Latin, Liver Mortis means blueish color.
Lividity is
observed 2 to 4 hours after death.
Next, your
body PUTREFIES.
Your stomach
turns green.
Bacteria in
your digestive tract eat the protein that make up your body.
The bacteria
releases gases, which smell similar to rotten eggs. The gas builds inside you
causing you to expand like a balloon.
This causes
your eyes to bulge out of their sockets.
And your
tongue is forced out of your mouth.
A week
passes.
Your skin
blisters so much that if someone touches you -- Your skin falls off.
A month
later, your hair falls out.
Your nails
fall out.
Your organs
liquefy.
The bacteria
inside you continue to feast. They excrete more and more gas until
-
POP! - You burst
open.
The rotting
gases in King Henry the VIII’s gut
caused his coffin to burst open.
In a coffin birth, built-up gas pressure within the putrefied
body of a dead pregnant woman can force the dead fetus to burst from the body of the
mother.
Instead of
letting your body decompose until bacteria feed on your rotting corpse, leaving
nothing behind but your skeleton, maybe you want to donate your organs
to people who need them.
You can donate tissues such as your corneas, skin, bone marrow, and even
heart valves even 15 hours after your last breath.
Or maybe you want to donate your body to science?
The best way
for a doctor to learn is by using a real body, also known as a CADAVER.
Leonardo da Vinci dissected dead bodies stolen from freshly dug graves.
He would draw what he saw. He identified not only muscles and bones, but also their functions in the body.
Today, doctors
can use your body to learn how to perform surgeries.
Different
parts of your body will be sent to different doctors.
While your
headless body might be in one room with a doctor learning how to crack open a
rib cage to perform heart surgery. Your
head might be in another room with a plastic surgeon. Maybe you’re getting a face lift or a nose
job.
Another way
scientists’ can use your body is at a body farm.
At the
University of Tennessee Medical Center, scientists study how bodies decay.
They do this
to help the science of Forensics.
If a dead
body is found, police are called to the crime scene.
FORENSICS experts examine the body to discover how the
person died. The University of
Tennessee’s body farm puts different cadavers in different situations.
For example,
they put Body #1 in the Sun, they bury Body
# 2 in a pond and they put Body
#3 in a plastic bag.
The bodies
all decay differently and these experiments help solve crimes.
A man who
claimed his wife died of an epileptic seizure was arrested for her murder when
Forensic scientists determined she actually died of hypothermia.
He had
trapped her in freezing cold water knowing that an epileptic seizure creates
the same effect as shivering in icy water.
Your brain
and heart need a constant core temperature to function.
As the brain
detects a fall in blood temperature, it automatically protects itself by
shutting down the blood supply to the hands and feet.
You lose
feeling.
If you keep
losing heat, the brain shuts down blood circulation over a larger and larger
area of your skin.
Your brain has
now shut down circulation to your hands and feet, your skin, and then organ by
organ until your brain must choose between blood for itself and blood for the
heart.
Your heart
stops beating.
Noor - I got your photos and the speech looks amazing! Congratulations on a great job.
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I wish I could have seen you perform it in your lab coat. :)
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