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Bookmark or Share- What Physically Happens to Your Body Right After DeathFrom a physical standpoint, death is when the body's vital functions stop, including breathing (respiration), heartbeats, and, brain activity. The actual moment of death is part of the process of dying during which all these functions shut down. Sometimes, it happens gradually and sometimes it happens very quickly.
- Dead Bodies Keep Moving For More Than a Year After Death, Forensic ...By Michelle Starr. (Kovshutin Denis/iStock) According to new research, the dead may not always rest in peace… quite literally. For more than a year after death, corpses move around "significantly", and this finding could be important for forensic investigations.
- Why Are We So Obsessed With Dead Bodies? - Smithsonian MagazineWhy Are We So Obsessed With Dead Bodies? Body Worlds taps into a long, fraught history of humans displaying the deceased for “science” Samuel Redman, The Conversation. April 12, 2017.
- Stages Of Death: Different Stages The Body Goes Through After DeathBut, after we die, the body goes through a complex set of changes before the body begins decomposing. These postmortem changes are divided into 4 stages of changes that occur in the body. They are used, primarily, to determine the time of death or post mortem index (PMI) in forensic pathology.
- Autopsy | History, Procedure, Purposes, & Facts | BritannicaAutopsy, dissection and examination of a dead body and its organs and structures. An autopsy may be performed to determine the cause of death, to observe the effects of disease, and to establish the evolution and mechanisms of disease processes. Learn more about autopsies, including their history.
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