When someone dies, what happens with their bodies?

When a person die it’s a moment of grief for him/her family and their bodies starts to decay. For this, people starts to do some things to keep it for a few days till their funerals ends.

Medically speaking the body after death starts immediately starts turning cold. This phase is known as algor mortis, or the death chill. Each hour, the body temperature falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (0.83 degrees Celsius) until it reaches room temperature. At the same time, without circulation to keep it moving through the body, blood starts to pool and settle. Rigor mortis, or a stiffening of the body, sets in about two to six hours after death .

While the body as a whole may be dead, little things within the body are still alive. Skin cells, for example, can be viably harvested for up to 24 hours after death But some things that are still alive lead to the putrefaction, or decomposition, of the body -- we're talking about little organisms that live in the intestines.

Disposing of human remains is usually highly regulated. How, when and where they can be interred and commemorated are subject to local and national laws. But such rituals and memorials are idealised departures. For countless millions, delivery to their final resting place has been accompanied by no more ceremony than being slung into a pit. Victims of disease, war, famine or natural disaster, dead bodies can be treated very harshly. Whereas in different circumstances, they might have been painstakingly preserved or, more recently, treated as a valuable resource.

Firstly we can speak about the religious or etnic principle where the body is seen like a bridge for the soul to the other world. They think that venerating the body, the soul can rest in peace in heaven or in a place which is better for it. For example in some religion the body is mummified or is left in nature that the animals of the sky to eat it and piece by piece his body can go with th body in heaven. In other places the body is cremated and its ashes is thrown in a whater or in the wind that he can be free in the world.

In bible the body is seen like a vessel for the soul and whatr happens with the body in his entire life will have repercussions in the eternal life of the soul. The body after it is buried waits to the second resurrection of Christ when the soul turn back to his body and revive to a new life.

I think that after death the body stops to live and by bacteria he start to decay, and he is transformed in dust till nothing remains. The whole body is eated by differit bacteria or insects which helps it to decompose.

Cristea Lucian George

Grupa L131, Romana Engleza