what would happen to the blood after the moment of death granting embalming never takes place?
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blood being living cells would die and rot...you dont breath when youre dead, so they arent collecting any oxygen, yes like that other person, it will coagulate.  Also your heart isnt pumping so it will not be able to move through the vessels without this pressure, so it will clot...it isnt common for it to build up in the vessels, but the amount of time it was out will determine what happens...it is one of the factors that help crime investigators tell how long something has been dead..CSI/Law&Order-esque
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I saw a program on funeral practices the other day. The preserving of bodies is centuries old but in the U.S. the Civil War was pivotal in its use of embalming-it preserved the remains of soldiers so they could be shipped home. Abraham Lincoln's funeral was key in introducing embalming on a wide scale. More info:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalming
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interesting question. I'm not sure I think it would depend on how you die. If it was something that would affect your brain like spine injury or stroke probly not but maybe if you have a heart attack your brain can still process for a few seconds while it still has blood that your heart stopped and you are dying. I do know that the brain can still work when cut off from the body (for a few seconds.) When they decapitated people they told them to blink until they couldn't anymore and the people would blink for almost 30 seconds after the head was cut off until they bleed to death. Kinda scary...
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Premature Burial.\nIn other words (for those ignorant twats among you)...being buried alive.\n\nThink about it.  You fall into an unusually deep sleep or perhaps a coma and people mistake it for death.  Perhaps you fell victim to some voodoo curse that removes your vital signs temporarily.  They have the funeral and then bury your ass in your fancy coffin in 6 feet of dirt.\nYou wake up the first night after you are buried.  It is dark and confined.  What happened to you?  Last thing you remember was going to sleep normally.  Imagine the terror.  And imagine it escalate when you feel the silky linings of your casket and realize what has happened to you.  You pound feverishly at the coffin lid but no one will be hearing you.  You will just fade away when the oxygen does.\nIt is cruel because it allowed you enough time to become aware and then to realize your fate and then understand that Jesus isn't there to help prevent your untimely demise.  \n\nOf course being buried alive in other, less traditional ways is just as bad.  \nLike if you were buried alive in a molasses flood.  Trapped as if you were a prehistoric mosquito in amber.\nYour scientific importance in 1000 years matters little to you as you understand you are being buried in Aunt Jemima.\nMaybe millions of dog volunteer workers from around the world will come and lick you out out of your hardened, sweet and sticky tomb but I doubt it.  \n\nThere are some other bad ways to die my goodbitches, but I am off to get some lunch.\n\n\n.
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Well, technically they can but usually only for about 6-8 minutes after death.  See, we define people as being dead when their heart stops beating, but for a few minutes if we can get their heart started again they'll be fine.  After about 8 minutes brain damage starts to occur, and I think somewhere between 15 and 30 minutes it becomes hopeless.  Those times will be a bit longer if the person is really cold though.
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it would probably be really painful.  Might burn mouth, throat, stomach.\n\nIt would probably make you sick or kill you, depending on how much you consumed.\n\nthere are different "recipes" for embalming fluid; the fatal dose would probably vary.
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I just finished up mortuary college. In the case of embalming, organs arent removed from the body, unless the body is autopsied. in that case while embalming the body, the organs are placed in to a bucket and soaked in embalmimg fluid. when the embalming is finished the organs are put in a bag called a viscera bag, placed back in the abdominal cavity and the incision is then closed around the bag.
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If a doctor or court were to sign a death certificate declaring you legally dead, and subsequently you came back to life, then you would have an argument that you had served your sentence completely.\n\nWhether such an argument would actually hold up in a court is arguable, because your revival would be in the same body with the same mind, fingerprints, memories, predispositions, etc. \n\nBut, it's an interesting question. \n\nHowever, if you only were medically dead for a very short time, and no death certificate was yet signed, then you would not have legally died, therefore you would not have served your entire sentence.
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Death begins when the heart stops beating. Deprived of oxygen, a cascade of cellular death commences. It begins with brain cells and finishes with the skin cells. Death is therefore a process, rather than an event.\n\n When the heart stops beating\n\n1. Heart stops beating and/or lungs stop breathing.\n\n2. Body cells no longer receive supplies of blood and oxygen.\n\n    * Blood drains from capillaries in the upper surfaces and collects in the blood vessels in the lower surfaces.\n    * Upper surfaces of the body become pale and the lower surfaces become dark.\n\n3. Cells cease aerobic respiration, and are unable to generate the energy molecules needed to maintain normal muscle biochemistry.\n\n    * Calcium ions leak into muscle cells preventing muscle relaxation.\n    * Muscles stiffen and remain stiff (rigor mortis) until they begin to decompose.\n\n4. Cells eventually die and the body loses its capacity to fight off bacteria.\n\n5. The cells' own enzymes and bacterial activity cause the body to decompose - muscles lose their stiffness.\n\nTiming?\n\n    * Brain cells can die if deprived of oxygen for more than three minutes. Muscle cells live on for several hours. Bone and skin cells can stay alive for several days.\n    * It takes around 12 hours for a human body to be cool to the touch and 24 hours to cool to the core.\n    * Rigor mortis commences after three hours and lasts until 36 hours after death.\n    * Forensic scientists use clues such as these for estimating the time of death.\n\n What is rigor mortis?\n\nRigor mortis refers to the state of a body after death, in which the muscles become stiff. It commences after around 3 hours, reaching maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and gradually dissipates until approximately 72 hours after death. Rigor mortis occurs due to changes in the physiology of muscles when aerobic respiration ceases.\n\nMuscles are made up of two types of fibre. These fibres have connections between them that lock and unlock during muscle contraction and relaxation. These connections are controlled by a biochemical pathway within the cell, which is partially driven by the presence of calcium ions. The concentration of calcium ions is higher in the fluid surrounding muscle cells than it is inside the cells, so calcium tends to diffuse into the cell. High calcium levels inside the cell drive the biochemical pathway in the direction that maintains muscle contraction. To relax, muscle cells must expel the calcium ions from the cell and this requires energy molecules to pump them across the cell membrane.\n\nAfter a body has died, the chemical reaction producing these energy molecules is unable to proceed because of a lack of oxygen. The cells no longer have the energy to pump calcium out of the cell and so the calcium concentration rises, forcing the muscles to remain in a contracted state. This state of muscle stiffening is known as rigor mortis and it remains until the muscle proteins start to decompose.
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IT IS THE ONE QUESTION NO LIVING PERSON CAN ANSWER,WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I DIE?This is the correct answer folks!
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I have dug many graves and a lot of it depends on whether there is a vault over the casket, ground water, soil types, and embalming fluids.It takes quite a while, because on the surface there are scavengers, but underground there aren`t but bacteria.I have relocated bodies and six or eight years after the burial they are still recognizable as human with a white mold covering them. I would say that a body buried with no vault might last quite a while before becoming a skeleton.
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I'm not going to give you the comforting fiction here. I'll just tell you the truth. Nothing happens to people after death. The last thing that happens to a person is the experience of the body failing and then ceasing to function. All the body systems, including brain processing, stop functioning. The individual loses consciousness for the last time. That final experience is the end. The person's lifeless body is then removed, etc. But THE PERSON no longer exists.
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At death, the human body is basically the same temperature that it was the instant before (when it was alive).  The body will then acclimate, just like any inanimate object, itself to the surrounding temperature over a period of time.
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I work at a blood bank and I have never seen anything get past our lab it is possible but rare. Most hospitals make sure that the centers that they receive blood from has excellent track records.
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OK, an assumption has to be made here. As long as there is no moving charge in the coagulating blood then there is no magnetic field produced and hence the magnitude in Tesla's will be zero.\nFrom Physics it is established that a magnetic field is only produced from a moving charge or a permanent magnetic dipole neither of which should be in the blood, Loosely speaking the iron in the blood could under the influence of a strong magnetic field have become aligned but it seems very unlikely that it would maintain the dipole alignment very long and certainly  not long enough to be considered in this context.
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It stops circulating through the body, and pools in the veins.  Blood will collect in the lowest part of the body, causing a phenomenon called livor mortis.  The skin in that area will turn purplish or dark red due to the livor mortis.\nFor example if a person dies sitting in a bathtub, their thighs/buttocks will be the lowest area of the body, and blood will collect there.\nIf you would like more information Wikipedia has this article on livor mortis:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livor_mortis\nHope this is helpful :-)
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The dead may return as vampires after they are buried to ward off them rice and other substances are thrown in the coffin. .\n\nTo make sure that the dead will not return as vampires, the burial has to take place in such a manner that it ensures a successful transition of the soul to the place where it is meant to go. Which means that the proper procedures have to be observed before, during and after the funeral. Especially if, according to the local belief, there is a risk that the deceased might become a vampire. Objects or substances such as rice,  are used to ward off vampires may be put into the coffin. Supposing that the vampire has managed to leave its grave, there is still no reason to panic. For there is a large variety of objects and substances (rice etc.)that are thought to ward off vampires-.