Aswathi Nithin

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE…

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE Dying is a very messy affair. People that have suffered cardiac death but have been brought back to life have said they were aware of what was going on around them. Others have talked about walking towards a light in a near death experience. You can be brought back from clinical death, but you only have a grace period of about 4-6 minutes. But let’s say you get to the light and pass through; this is what we call biological death – game over, the final whistle, dead as a dodo. This is where it gets kind of undignified, but what do you care, you’re dead. Once you’re definitely no longer with us, your muscles relax and this means your sphincter will too, meaning that triple Whopper and large fires you had for lunch will spill out of you – the gas you have in you may also leak out and cause a stink. The same goes for the pee you’ve got in your bladder, so dying not surprisingly is a bit of a messy affair. And men, you might even ejaculate. As for women, after you die, depending on how pregnant you are at the time, childbirth may happen - called “coffin birth”. It doesn’t happen often though. Instead of pushing, it’s the gases in the abdomen that squeeze the newborn into the world. As the body gets rid of what is trapped inside noises may be emitted from your mouth as air escapes from those close by; nurses and people working close to dead bodies regularly report hearing very alive sounding moans and groans coming from deceased bodies most commonly when they are lying on their stomachs If you're still alive when all this happens there's still a chance that medical help could reach you before rigor mortis sets in which would result in rigid muscular contortions followed by an erection if deceased upon being placed on their back Likelihood of Dying