That depends on what your family decides they want done with the body. The two most common options are burial and cremation in which the entire body is placed in a coffin before being buried in a cemetery or incinerated in a furnace.
Some people offer to donate their organs when they die which means if they die under very specific circumstances surgeons can remove the organs and transplant them into a person who needs a new set of lungs, heart, liver etc. People who donate their organs are real heroes in my opinion.
As James has said. Depending on what you want done with your body, depends on what happens to it. I am going to have my body donated to science.
There is another way to answer this though, and it depends on how gross you want it to get. After you die, the cells begin to die due to the lack of oxygen, and the processes that drive what it is to be alive, stop.
The bacteria in our bodies, begin to break down cells, and the human body will swell up… do you want me to keep going? It does get a bit yuck.
@shaunt. Yep, James and Dustin have got this one. The cells that make up our organs can’t function any more and they breakdown, degrade and putrefy. Not pleasant but that’s reality.
Hi Shaunt,
The others have explained nicely what happens – simply put, our cells can no longer function correctly, so they stop working and then are broken down.
Just thought I’d share a chemical story with you: there are 2 compounds that were first discovered from dead bodies, and they are the substances that make them smell unpleasant. Guess what common names they were given and are now generally known as? Putrescine and cadaverine!
@Dustin It is really difficult to get you body donated to science, you should check out the doco “Donated to Science” about human dissection in a NZ medical school.
That depends on what your family decides they want done with the body. The two most common options are burial and cremation in which the entire body is placed in a coffin before being buried in a cemetery or incinerated in a furnace.
Some people offer to donate their organs when they die which means if they die under very specific circumstances surgeons can remove the organs and transplant them into a person who needs a new set of lungs, heart, liver etc. People who donate their organs are real heroes in my opinion.
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Hi Shaunt,
As James has said. Depending on what you want done with your body, depends on what happens to it. I am going to have my body donated to science.
There is another way to answer this though, and it depends on how gross you want it to get. After you die, the cells begin to die due to the lack of oxygen, and the processes that drive what it is to be alive, stop.
The bacteria in our bodies, begin to break down cells, and the human body will swell up… do you want me to keep going? It does get a bit yuck.
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@shaunt. Yep, James and Dustin have got this one. The cells that make up our organs can’t function any more and they breakdown, degrade and putrefy. Not pleasant but that’s reality.
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Hi Shaunt,
The others have explained nicely what happens – simply put, our cells can no longer function correctly, so they stop working and then are broken down.
Just thought I’d share a chemical story with you: there are 2 compounds that were first discovered from dead bodies, and they are the substances that make them smell unpleasant. Guess what common names they were given and are now generally known as? Putrescine and cadaverine!
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