Stages of decomposition. Stages of decomposition of a corpse. Other types of natural corpse preservation
From the moment the heart stops, bodies become surprisingly active. And even though the dead will not be able to tell what decomposition is and how this whole process takes place, biologists can do this.
Life after death
The irony is that in order to rot, our bodies must teem with life.
1. Cardiac arrest
The heart stops and the blood thickens. The very moment that doctors call “the time of death.” Once this happens, all other parts of the body begin to die at different rates.
2. Two-tone coloring
The blood, which the “motor” has stopped dispersing through the vessels, accumulates in the veins and arteries. Since blood no longer flows, the body takes on a complex coloration. His Bottom part turns purple-blue, like a juicy black eye after a glorious brawl. The laws of physics are to blame: blood settles in the lower part of the body due to the effects of gravity. The rest of the skin located at the top will have a deathly pale color because the blood has accumulated elsewhere. The circulatory system no longer works, the blood loses hemoglobin, which is responsible for its red color, and the blood becomes discolored, turning into a pale color of the tissues.
3. Deadly cold
Algor mortis is the Latin word for “deadly cold.” Bodies lose their lifetime 36.6°C and slowly adapt to room temperature. The rate of temperature decrease is about 0.8°C per hour.
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4. Rigor mortis
Hardening and stiffening of limb muscles occurs several hours after death, when the entire body begins to stiffen due to decreased ATP (adenosine triphosphate) levels. Rigor mortis begins in the eyelids and neck muscles. The process of rigor rigor itself is not endless - it stops subsequently when the enzymatic decomposition of muscle tissue begins.
5. Chaotic movements
Yes, the blood has drained and frozen, but bodies are still capable of twitching and bending for several hours after death. Muscle tissue contracts as a person dies, and depending on how many and which muscles contracted during the agony, the body of the deceased may even appear to move.
6. Younger face
As the muscles eventually stop contracting, the wrinkles disappear. Death is a little like Botox. The only trouble is that you are already dead and cannot rejoice in this circumstance.
7. The intestines empty
Although rigor mortis causes the body to freeze, not all organs do so. At the moment of death, our sphincter finally gains freedom, getting rid of the endless control of the brain. When the brain stops regulating involuntary functions, the sphincter does what it wants: it opens and all the “residues” leave the body.
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8. Corpses smell great
Corpses are known to smell. Putrid odors are the result of a surge of enzymes, which fungi and bacteria, designed for decomposition processes, perceive as a signal to attack. In the tissues of a corpse there is a mass of everything that allows them to actively reproduce. The “feast” of bacteria and fungi is accompanied by the generation of putrefactive gases with corresponding odors.
9. Animal Invasion
Blowflies literally step on the heels of bacteria and fungi. They rush to lay their eggs in the deceased body, which then turn into larvae. The larvae cheerfully bite into dead flesh. Later they are joined by ticks, ants, spiders, and then larger scavengers.
10. Farewell sounds
Wild trash from all the doctors and nurses! Bodies will emit gases, creak and groan! All this is the result of a wild combination of rigor mortis and the violent activity of the intestines, which continue to release gas.
11. The intestines are digested
Since the intestines are filled with a variety of bacteria, after death they do not have to travel far - they immediately attack the intestines. Having gotten rid of the control of the immune system, bacteria literally run wild and have a riotous feast.
12. Eyes pop out of their sockets
As organs decompose and the intestines produce gases, these gases cause eyes to bulge from their sockets and tongues to swell and fall out of mouths.
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13. Bloated skin
Gases rush upward, gradually separating the skin from the bones and muscles.
14. Rotting
Following the “slipping down” blood, all tissue cells tend downward under the influence of gravity. The body tissues have already lost their density due to decomposed proteins. Once the putrefaction reaches its apotheosis, the corpses become “sweet” and spongy. In the end, only bones remain.
15. Bones come last
Decades after bacteria, fungi and other organisms have finished off the flesh, the protein in the bones breaks down, leaving behind hydroxyapatite, a bone mineral. But over time it turns to dust.
The dead hear everything
Everything that happens to us beyond the line separating life from death was, is and still is for a long time will remain a mystery. Hence - a lot of fantasies, sometimes quite scary. And especially scary ones if they are partly realistic.
A dead woman giving birth is one of these horrors. Several centuries ago, when mortality in Europe was prohibitively high, the number of women who died during pregnancy was also high. All the same gases described above led to the expulsion of an already non-viable fetus from the body. All this is casuistry, but the few cases that occurred are documented, writes the Bigpicture portal.
A relative crouched in a coffin is a quite probable phenomenon, but, to put it mildly, exciting. People in past centuries felt about the same as we do today. It was the fear of witnessing something like this, combined with the hope that the dead person might suddenly come to life, that at one time led to the appearance of “houses of the dead.” When relatives doubted that a person was dead, they left him in a room in such a house with a rope tied to his finger, says Naked-Science. The other end of the rope led to a bell located in the next room. If the deceased “came to life”, the bell rang, and the guard, serving in a chair next to the bell, immediately rushed to the deceased. Most often, the alarm was false - the cause of the ringing was the movement of bones caused by gases or the sudden relaxation of muscles. The deceased left the “house of the dead” when there was no longer any doubt about the processes of decay.
The development of medicine, oddly enough, only aggravates the confusion around the processes of death. Thus, doctors have found that some parts of the body continue to live after death for quite a long time, writes InoSMI. Such “long-livers” include heart valves: they contain connective tissue cells that retain “good shape” for some time after death. Thus, heart valves from a deceased person can be used for transplantation within 36 hours of cardiac arrest.
The cornea lives twice as long. Its usefulness lasts three days after you die. This is explained by the fact that the cornea is in direct contact with air and receives oxygen from it.
This can also explain the “long life path” of the auditory nerve. The deceased, as doctors say, loses hearing, the last of all his five senses. For another three days the dead hear everything - hence the famous: “About the deceased - everything or nothing but the truth.”
According to the law “On Burial...”, 15 years are allotted for the decomposition of a human body. This figure is based on the fact that in a temperate climate, with average soil texture, at a depth of about 2 m, it takes 10 to 12 years for the human body to decompose to a clean skeleton. In most cases, this is really enough for almost nothing to remain of the body, because the bones of the skeleton also do not last forever and are actively decomposed by soil acids. However, it is enough to talk with archaeologists, criminologists, and even just gravediggers to understand how often they encounter all sorts of anomalies. The processes that occur with the human body after burial are so complex and sometimes unpredictable that they gave rise to a whole scientific field - taphonomy. Among the main factors influencing the decomposition of the human body are temperature, access to oxygen, embalming, cause of death, method of burial, nature of wounds and injuries, humidity, nature of clothing and the surface on which the body lies. Research in this area has serious applied and academic significance, but science still cannot explain many mysterious phenomena occurring with human remains. In this case, theologians of various directions willingly come to the rescue.
Farm of the Dead
This unusual testing ground, known to experts as Body Farm, is located in the US state of Tennessee, a few miles from the town of Knoxville, and belongs to the local university medical center. Founded it for scientific research on the decomposition of the human body, anthropologist Dr. William Bass. Here, in the grove, on an area of just over a hectare, there are several hundred bodies. It is curious that more than 300 bodies were donated to the landfill by volunteers during their lifetime. The rest are unclaimed corpses. Some of the bodies lie in different positions on the surface, while others are buried at different depths. Some are left inside old cars, others are placed in crypts. The landfill is fenced off from random guests with barbed wire. Nevertheless, visitors come here regularly. The bulk of them are groups of FBI trainees, who are clearly shown the processes of decomposition of human bodies depending on numerous external conditions.
The experience of the “Farm of the Dead” is being carefully studied by experts all over the world. After all, serious scientific research on the taphonomy of human remains, and even supported by long-term experimental research, is still not enough. A typical case in this regard occurred in 2002 in Israel, where the parents of the deceased soldier Daniel Geller demanded the exhumation of their son’s body, suspecting that the Institute of Forensic Medicine had removed part of his organs without permission. The body was exhumed two years after burial. At the trial, two luminaries of science acted as opponents to each other - the director of the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv, Yehuda Giss, and professor-pathologist from Denmark, Jurgen Thompson, who presented diametrically opposed expert opinions on the question of whether, in two years, they could preserved in the ground under given conditions the remains of lungs, liver, kidneys, brain, heart and tongue.
Swamp people
In northern Europe, numerous finds of the so-called “bog people” have long been known. We are talking about periodically discovered perfectly preserved human bodies in sphagnum peat bogs, which are several hundred, and in some cases up to ten thousand years old. Due to the acidic environment created by sphagnum mosses, low temperature, and the lack of oxygen, the “swamp people” have perfectly preserved soft tissues (including skin and internal organs) and clothes. In some cases, scientists were even able to study the contents of their stomachs. But the skeleton of swamp people, as a rule, is completely absent, so acids very quickly eat up bone remains. It is curious that the ancient Europeans, in particular the Celts, no doubt knew about the preservative properties of peat and sometimes deliberately made burials in bogs, thus achieving natural embalming.
The most famous of the bog people is Lindow Man, found in a peat bog near Manchester in 1984 and now kept in the British Museum. The Lindow man became famous not so much because of the good preservation of his upper part (head, arms, chest), but because of the method of his murder, which took place in the 2nd century. BC. and which was restored with a sufficient degree of reliability. First, the unfortunate man was struck three times on the head, then stabbed in the throat, then bled, then ritually strangled, breaking cervical vertebrae, and “drowned” face down in the swamp. The presence of a large amount of mistletoe pollen in the stomach suggests that the Lindow man was also poisoned before his execution, which was of a ritual nature.
In Russia, sphagnum peat bogs often present surprises of a different kind. In Leningradskaya and Novgorod regions There are still many unburied soldiers last war, embalmed naturally. Even the participants of various search groups, who are not shy people, are left with an indelible impression by such finds.
Conditions for centuries-long preservation of soft tissues of the body can exist not only in peat bogs. Oak logs, widely used for burial in Rus' in pre-Petrine times, also effectively protect from decay. Such burials dating back to the 16th–17th centuries have been repeatedly discovered in the center of Moscow. Wood tannins and a tightly closed lid ensure the preservation of soft tissues for three to four centuries.
Embalmed while alive
Observing the processes of decomposition of the exhumed remains of people buried in the last three decades, Professor Rainer Horn from the German city of Kiel came to the unexpected conclusion that the period of stay in the earth of our contemporaries has significantly lengthened. Among the reasons for the slow decomposition, Professor Horn names the consumption of large amounts of preservatives in food and the use of cosmetics during life, that is, in fact, intravital embalming.
Preparation for the transition to another state, characteristic of yogic practice, also often leads to a special course of processes in the body after physical death. For example, in 1952, the director of the Los Angeles morgue, Harry Rowe, observed the body of the deceased Paramahan Yogananda for 20 days, not noting any signs of physical decay, odors or drying. The lack of signs of natural decomposition so shocked Dr. Rowe that he wrote down and notarized all his observations in detail.
Cases of abnormal preservation of the deceased are considered by many religions as evidence of special spiritual qualities and holiness of the deceased. Let us mention one of them, relatively recent. In 1927, Dashi-Dorzho Itiglov, Pandito Khambo Lama, the spiritual head of all Buddhists in Russia, died. He predicted his death, prepared for it, and shortly before leaving for another world he asked his students to check his body in 30 years. The Hambo Lama died in the lotus position, in a state of meditation. In this position he was buried in a special sarcophagus. In 1955, a group of Buryat lamas secretly excavated the grave, opened the sarcophagus and found Itiglov still sitting in the same position without signs of decomposition. A secondary exhumation was carried out in 1973. Itiglov looked as if he were alive. In 2002, his body was finally removed from the ground and is currently located in one of the Lamaist temples of Ulan-Ude. In 2004, Itiglov’s body was examined by employees of the Russian Center for Forensic Medicine under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation. There were no significant changes in the tissue of hair, nails and skin. Internal organs were present. There were no signs of embalming.
Buried alive?
Who among us has not heard about terrible stories about people being buried alive and mistakenly buried? For example, about Gogol turning over in his grave, about coffin lids scratched from the inside and other chilling stories. Specialists examining bone remains can add a lot of facts regarding inexplicable processes and unknown forces that literally twist some of the burials. Of the rational explanations here, perhaps, only the work of gases released during decomposition and permafrost processes in the soil, leading to partial displacements, can be cited.
Or maybe these gloomy rumors are just our latent and subconscious, at the genetic level, protest against going into a dark pit? After all, the custom of burial in the ground came to Rus' relatively late. Our Slavic and Finno-Ugric ancestors gravitated toward other, more visualized, and therefore less mysterious options for saying goodbye to family and friends: cremation in canoes and shallow fire pits, burial in above-ground storage sheds and “houses of the dead,” and sometimes simply and environmentally friendly feeding of the dead animals and birds.
Nobody likes talking about death, the perishability of existence, and so on. For some, they remind us of lectures on philosophy that we tried to skip at the institute, while for others they make us sad, make us look at our lives from a bird’s eye view and understand that there is still so much to do.
No matter how sad it may be, it is important to treat this as a part of life and it is useful to season everything with a bit of humor, as well as interesting facts.
1. A large number of unpleasant odors.
After death, the body completely relaxes, as a result of which previously pent-up gases are released.
2. Rigor mortis.
It is also called Rigor Mortis. And it is caused by the loss of a substance called adenosine triphosphate. In short, it is its absence that causes muscles to become hard. A similar chemical reaction begins in the body two to three hours after death. After two days, the muscles relax and return to their original state. Interestingly, in cool conditions the body is least susceptible to cadaveric petrification.
3. Goodbye wrinkles!
As mentioned just above, after death the body relaxes, which means that tension in the muscles disappears. Thus, small wrinkles in the corners of the lips, eyes, and forehead may disappear. The smile also disappears from the face.
4. Wax bodies.
Some bodies, under certain conditions, can become coated with a substance called fat wax or adipocyr, which is a breakdown product of the body's cells. As a result, some areas of the body may become “waxy.” By the way, this fat wax can be white, yellow or gray.
5. Muscle movement.
After death, the body twitches for a couple of seconds and spasms occur in it. Moreover, there have been cases when, after a person has given up the ghost, his chest moves, creating the impression that the deceased is breathing. And the reason for such phenomena lies in the fact that after death there is still some time nervous system sends a signal to the spinal cord.
6. Attack by bacteria.
Each of us has countless bacteria in our bodies. And for the reason that after death the immune system ceases to function, now nothing prevents them from moving freely throughout the body. So, bacteria begin to consume the intestines, and then the surrounding tissues. They then invade the blood capillaries of the digestive system and the lymph nodes, spreading first to the liver and spleen, and then to the heart and brain.
7. Corpse moans.
Every person's body is filled with liquids and gas. As soon as all organs are attacked by the bacteria that we wrote about in the previous paragraph, the process of rotting begins, and then some of the gases evaporate. So, for them, one of the exit routes is the trachea. Therefore, a whistle, a sigh, or groans are often heard inside a dead body. Definitely a terrible sight.
8. Sexual arousal.
Most deceased men experience swelling of the penis after death, resulting in an erection. This is explained by the fact that after cardiac arrest, blood, under the influence of gravitational forces, moves to lower organs, and the penis is one of them.
9. Childbirth.
There have been cases in history when the body of a deceased pregnant woman pushed out a non-viable fetus. This is all explained by the presence of gases accumulated inside, as well as complete bodily relaxation.
10. It is impossible to die of old age.
Old age is not a disease. Everyone knows that after the death of a person, his relatives are issued a death certificate. And even if the deceased was 100 years old, this document will not indicate that the cause of his death was old age.
11. Last 10 seconds.
Some experts say that after the soul has left the body, some cellular activity in the head and brain may be observed. All this is the result of muscle contraction. In general, after recording the state of clinical death, the brain lives for another 6 minutes.
12. Eternal bones.
Over time, all human tissues completely rot. As a result, a bare skeleton remains, which may collapse after years, but in any case, especially strong bones will remain.
13. A little about decomposition.
It is believed that the human body consists of 50-75% water, and every kilogram of dry body mass during decomposition releases environment 32 grams of nitrogen, 10 grams of phosphorus, 4 grams of potassium and 1 gram of magnesium. At first, this kills the vegetation below and around. It is possible that the reason for this is nitrogen toxicity or antibiotics contained in the body, which are released into the soil by insect larvae that eat the corpse.
14. Bloating and more.
Four days after death, the body begins to swell. This is due to the accumulation of gases in gastrointestinal tract, as well as destruction of internal organs. The latter does not happen only with an embalmed body. And now there will be a very unpleasant description. So, bloating occurs first in the abdominal area, and then spreads throughout the body. Decomposition also discolors the skin and causes blisters. And a foul-smelling liquid begins to ooze from all the natural orifices of the body. Moisture and heat speed up this process.
15. Fertilize the soil.
As the body decomposes, it releases many nutrients which are absorbed into the soil. You won’t believe it, but increasing them can improve the ecosystem, in particular, it will become an excellent fertilizer for nearby growing vegetation.
16. Hair and nails.
You've probably heard more than once that hair and nails supposedly continue to grow after death. Actually this is not true. It turns out that the skin loses moisture, exposing the hair. And the length of nails is usually measured from the tips to the point where they touch the skin. So, as the skin recedes, they appear longer, and it seems as if they are growing.
The following stages of death are distinguished: preagonal state (characterized by circulatory and respiratory disorders), terminal pause (sudden cessation of breathing, sharp depression of cardiac activity, extinction of bioelectrical activity of the brain, extinction of corneal and other reflexes), agony (the body begins to fight for life, short-term holding your breath), clinical death (lasts 4-10 minutes), biological death (brain death occurs).
18. Blueness of the body.
It occurs when blood stops circulating throughout the body. The size and color of such cadaveric spots depends on the position and conditions of the body. Under the influence of gravity, blood settles in tissues. Thus, a reclining body will have spots in the areas on which it rested.
19. Method of burial.
Someone donates their body to science, someone wants to be cremated, mummified or buried in a coffin. And in Indonesia, babies are wrapped in cloth and placed in holes made in the trunks of living, growing trees, which are then covered with palm fiber doors and sealed. But that's not all. Every year, in August, a ritual called “manene” takes place. The bodies of dead babies are removed, washed and dressed in new clothes. After this, the mummies “walk” throughout the village like zombies... They say that in this way the local population expresses their love to the deceased.
20. Hear after death.
Yes, after death, hearing is the last of all the senses to give up. Therefore, loved ones who mourn the deceased often pour out their souls to him in the hope that he will hear them.
21. Severed head.
After beheading, the head remains conscious for another 10 seconds. Although some doctors argue: the reason that a severed head can blink is because of the coma into which the body falls. Moreover, all these blinking and facial expressions are caused by a lack of oxygen.
22. Long-lived skin cells.
While loss of circulation can kill the brain in minutes, other cells don't need a constant supply. Skin cells, which live on the outer layer of our body, can live for several days. They are in contact with external environment, and through osmosis they will pull everything they need from the air.
23. Defecation.
It was mentioned earlier that after death the body relaxes and tension in the muscles disappears. The same applies to the rectum and anus, resulting in defecation. It is triggered by gases that overwhelm the body. Now you understand why it is customary to wash the deceased.
24. Urination.
After death, the deceased may also urinate. After such relaxation, the process of rigor mortis, described in point No. 2, begins.
25. 21 grams.
This is how much the human soul weighs. Its density is 177 times less than the density of air. This is not fiction, but a scientifically proven fact.
What happens to the body in the coffin after it is buried? This question is of interest not only to those who are interested in mysticism and anatomy. Almost every person on the planet often thinks about this. With the burial process and further development body is associated with a large number of myths and interesting facts, which few people know. In our article you can find information that will allow you to learn more about what happens to the corpse throughout the time it is underground and above it.
General information about processes
Death is a natural process that, unfortunately, cannot yet be prevented. Today, how the body decomposes in a coffin is known only to those who have a medical education. However, detailed information about this process is also of interest to many curious people. It is worth noting that various processes occur in a corpse immediately after death. These include temperature changes and oxygen starvation. Already a few minutes after death, organs and cells begin to deteriorate.
Many people torment themselves with the thought of what happens in the coffin with the body. Decomposition, depending on many factors, can proceed in completely different ways. There are more than five processes that, due to certain circumstances, occur in a particular body. Surprisingly, the cadaverous smell is often artificially created by specialized organizations. This is necessary for training detection dogs.
Rotting and mummification
In our article you can find detailed information about what happens in a coffin with a human body after death. As we said earlier, there are more than five processes that can take place in a given corpse, depending on a wide variety of factors. The most well-known forms of body development after burial are rotting and mummification. Almost everyone has heard about these processes.
Rotting is a labor-intensive process that occurs in the body. As a rule, it begins on the third day after death. Simultaneously with rotting, the formation of a whole list of gases begins. These include hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and many others. It is for this reason that the corpse gives off an unpleasant odor. Depending on the time of year, the body may decompose slowly or quickly. At air temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, rotting of a corpse occurs in the shortest possible time. If the body was not buried, its decomposition time on the surface of the earth is 3-4 months. When the rotting process comes to an end, only the bones remain from the corpse, and everything else turns into a mushy mass and eventually disappears completely. It is worth noting that everything that is released at this stage is absorbed by the soil. Thanks to this, it becomes unusually fertile.
What happens to a body in a coffin after death if it undergoes mummification? With this process, the corpse dries out completely. An interesting fact is that during mummification, the initial weight of the body decreases tenfold. As a rule, this process takes place in those corpses that have been in conditions of low humidity for a long time. Such places include an attic or, for example, sandy soil. A mummified corpse can be preserved for quite a long time.
There are only a small number of people who know what happens in a coffin with a human body after death. Nevertheless, this process interests many. In our article you can find out more detailed information about how the body develops after death.
Peat tanning and fat wax formation
The process of fat wax formation occurs if the corpse is buried in damp soil or has been in water for a long time. As a result, the body becomes covered with a fatty layer white, which has a specific and unpleasant odor. Often this process is also called saponification.
Not everyone knows what happens to a person’s body after death in a coffin after 2 months if he is buried in excessively wet soil. After 60 days, the corpse begins to crumble and has a white-yellow tint. If a person’s body is buried in peat soil or located in a swamp, the skin becomes dense and rough. It is worth noting that when tanned, the corpse acquires a brown tint, and the size of the internal organs is significantly reduced. Over time, the bones become soft and resemble cartilage in consistency. By the way, peat tanning can also occur due to the influence of certain factors. These include the temperature of the water and the presence of various microelements and chemicals in it.
The impact of living organisms on a human corpse
In addition to all the above factors, the human body can be destroyed by exposure to animals, insects and birds. Most likely, the body of the deceased is destroyed by fly larvae. Surprisingly, they are capable of completely destroying a corpse in just two months.
Other living organisms that consume the body of a deceased person are ants, cockroaches and carrion eaters. Termites are capable of turning a body into a skeleton in two months. It is no secret that in addition to insects, the human body can be eaten by dogs, wolves, foxes and other predatory animals. In a pond, the corpse is destroyed by fish, beetles, crayfish and other aquatic inhabitants.
Explosive coffins
Not everyone knows what happens to the person in the coffin. As we said earlier, some time after burial, various changes begin to occur with the body. Within a few hours, the corpse begins to release substances, including various gases. If the coffin was not buried, but was placed in a crypt, then it may explode. Many cases have been recorded when relatives came to visit the deceased, and he detonated. However, this can only happen if the coffin is hermetically sealed and not placed in the ground. We strongly recommend that you be careful when visiting the crypts.
Self-destruction
What happens to the body in the coffin after death some time later? This question is asked not only by doctors and criminologists, but also ordinary people. Surprisingly, over a period of time the body absorbs itself. The thing is that in any organism there are millions of a wide variety of bacteria that do not cause any harm during life. First of all, after death, they completely destroy the brain and liver. This is due to the fact that these organs contain greatest number water. After this, the bacteria gradually destroy everything else. It is this process that is associated with the change in color of the skin of the deceased. Once the corpse enters the rigor stage, it becomes completely filled with bacteria. The time and process of self-destruction may differ depending on the set of microbes in a particular organism.
It is worth noting that some bacteria can only be present in the body at a certain stage of decomposition and putrefaction. Surprisingly, under the influence of microorganisms, the tissues of the deceased turn into gases, salts and various substances. By the way, all these microelements have a beneficial effect on the composition of the soil.
Larvae
In our article you can find out what happens to the body in the coffin after exposure to the larvae. As we said earlier, in addition to bacteria and other microorganisms, tissues and internal organs are also consumed by insects, animals and birds.
After the self-destruction stage ends, the larvae begin to destroy the corpse. Surprisingly, a female fly is capable of laying about 250 eggs at a time. It is no secret that the body of the deceased emits a pungent and unpleasant odor. It attracts insects that lay large numbers of eggs on the body. Within a day they turn into larvae. Surprisingly, just three flies can devour a corpse with the same speed as a tiger or lion.
The location of certain soil elements or certain microorganisms in the body allows forensic scientists to find out where a person died or was killed. They also claim that in the near future it is the bacterial set of a corpse that may become a new “weapon” for solving many crimes.
Soul of man
Some people think they know what happens to the body in the coffin. They claim that after some time the soul leaves the flesh of the deceased, and when dying, a person sees everything that the living do not see. They also believe that the first three days after death are the most difficult for the deceased. The thing is that for 72 hours the soul is still near the body and is trying to return back. She leaves as soon as she sees the face and body change. After this happens, the soul rushes from home to grave for seven days. In addition, she mourns her body.
At the end of seven days the soul goes to a place of peace. After this, she only occasionally lowers herself to the ground to look at her body. Some people believe that they know what happens to the body and soul in the coffin. However, it is impossible to prove that the spirit actually leaves the flesh.
Diamond production
It is quite difficult to bear the death of a loved one. It is even difficult for some to imagine what happens in the coffin with the body. Often people cremate their deceased relatives or even build a crypt for them right in the yard. IN Lately The technology invented by American specialists is gaining particular popularity. Surprisingly, they create diamonds from the ashes and hair of a deceased person. American experts believe that this is an excellent way to preserve the memory of the deceased. Today, similar technology is used all over the world. As we said earlier, diamonds can also be made from the hair of the deceased. Today this procedure is extremely popular. Few people know, but just recently a company that makes such jewelry was ordered to make diamonds from Michael Jackson’s hair.
It is worth noting that gems can be created from dust due to what it contains carbon dioxide. The cost of such a service in America is 30 thousand dollars. Many believe that one should not torment oneself with the thought of what happens in the coffin with the body. They argue that it is better to preserve only good memories of the deceased.
Love after death
Everyone deals with the death of a loved one completely differently. There are many cases where people did not bury the deceased, but left him in their house, hiding it. It is known that the man’s wife died, but he did not want to bury her body because he could not let her go because of his great love. Surprisingly, he ordered a transparent coffin and placed his beloved in it, after pouring a special liquid into it. He then built a coffee table out of the coffin.
Another case of strange treatment of a corpse occurred in America. There the woman decided to make a stuffed animal of her husband. She set aside an entire room in the basement for the corpse. There she placed furniture and her husband’s favorite things. She sat the corpse on a chair. The woman often visited him, told him how her day went and asked for advice.
There used to be a kind of tradition. If a person did not find a partner during his lifetime, then he was married after death. It was believed that if this is not done, the soul of the deceased will not find a place for itself and will wander forever.
This tradition existed in Russia as well. If a girl died unmarried, then she was dressed in Wedding Dress and they chose a guy who should follow the coffin to burial. It was believed that thanks to this the soul would find peace. It is worth noting that in some populated areas This tradition is still popular today.
IN ancient Egypt Necrophilia was widespread. This is no coincidence, because the Egyptians believed the myths according to which she impregnated herself with the help of the corpse of Osiris.
Let's sum it up
Death is a natural process. A large number of myths, guesses and interesting facts are associated with it. It's no secret that coping with the loss of a loved one is quite difficult. Because of this, some become depressed and do not make contact with society. There are many cases when people begin to suffer mental disorder. As a rule, they do not bury their relatives, but leave them in the house, hiding it from neighbors and friends. In our article you found out what happens to the body in the coffin. The photos that we have selected will allow you to find out what happens to a person after death.
Instead of growing crops and raising livestock, these farms study the decomposition of human bodies under various conditions. Scattered across 16 acres of this farm are 50 naked bodies in various stages of decomposition. The Freeman Ranch is one of 5 "human body farms" that conducts this type of research. Read on to find out how this happens and who needs it.
Freeman Ranch - part of the Forensic Anthropology Center at the Texas A&M Center state university. It is one of the leading research institutes for studying how the human body decomposes
The knowledge gained from the Freeman Ranch investigation is invaluable to law enforcement agencies around the world. And the value of the Freeman Ranch itself increases with the fact that such “farms” are prohibited in Europe
Donor bodies are used by scientists to find out how different weather conditions and terrain affect the decomposition of human bodies.
New bodies are delivered to the ranch several times a month. Researchers and graduate students must then properly clean and classify the new bodies before they place them on the field.
People's bodies are located either in the open, accessible to wildlife, terrain, or placed under special cells. The first method allows you to study how the body can change under the influence of animals, and the second - bacteria.
Bodies in cells go through three stages of decomposition:
In the first stage, the body swells due to the gas released by bacteria during their activity inside the body
In the second stage, gases leave the body and decomposition of body fluids begins
Then dry decay occurs, when almost all the meat on the body has already decomposed. This stage is reached approximately a few weeks after decomposition begins.
This is what a body looks like that has decomposed without being under a cage. The ribcage you can see in the photo above is the result of exposure to vultures and other animals.
Due to the sensitive nature of the study, Freeman Ranch has extensive security and is under constant surveillance. However, researchers say they have never had problems with people trying to get onto the ranch.
