What Really Happens To Your Body After One Year In A Coffin
Humans often cope with death by disguising it as life. Perhaps the most glaring example of this is the opencasket funeral, when humans go through the effort of dressing up a dead person and laying them in a giant jewelry box with plush lining, almost creating the impression that they re sleeping. However, as time passes, that sleeping beauty will undergo some drastic changes. Here s how your body might change after a year of eternal beauty sleep. Death waits for no one, and it certainly won t wait for a corpse to get gussied up before your body starts to break down. The first organ to go is your brain. After spending its whole life trying to keep the rest of you alive, in death your brain does the same thing in much more dramatic fashion. As detailed in the book What We Leave Behind, your brain cells will start breaking themselves down in a process called autolysis. This begins after just four minutes of oxygen deprivation. According to Scientific American, during autolysis, carbon
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