when your dead...

[Gemba100]

just out of interest, what actually happens when you die? I mean obviously you go stiff and your blood is removed - but what is then injected into your body?

Also, what do they do with the blood? Can it be used to treat others (giving blood) - although i dont know if this would be allowed/wanted?

Just curious!

[nursecarla]

brilliant question elvis i honestly dont know for sure i wouldnt imagine there would be much weight loss but i will find out x

[electricblue]

Ooops thought i was in body and soul,but think i've stumbled into the hammer house of horrors!! lol!

[Clanad]

Actually, it's called a trochar... a surgical quality stainless steel tube about one half inch in diameter sharpened and open on the business end and attached to a suction tube on the other... description of how it's used on request.
And the mouth/jaw isn't superglued shut... nor are the orifices sewn shut... but other means are used. Plastic cup like devices are inserted under the eye lids that both hold the lids shut but also keep the lids from sinking in as the eyes lose their pressure. It's really no big deal it's just the western culture's way of feigning sleep in a dead body. Other cultures insist the body be buried before any decomposition sets in, say 24 hours max...

[nursecarla]

i would say it is a big deal wondering what happens to someone you know for instance after death but thanks for brushing up on my mistakes clanad, got the jist of of it right though :) x

[ELVIS68]

I only asked because some of the funerals I`ve been to I was amazed at how small the coffins were compared to the size of the person inside....unless I`ve been turning up at the wrong funerals all these years lol

[campbellking]

At the funeral directors my housemate works in, they're still stiching the mouths shut.They do have fun with the plastic things and the eyes....

[nursecarla]

cemetery stories by Katherine ramsland interesting read x

[alijangra]

when you perform last offices(wash and prep the body for the mortuary) in hospital you have to roll the body side to side to wash, put on the shroud etc quite often they make a groaning noise which is just the air escaping. Its eerie but its amazing how quick you become immune to being around dead bodies.

[nursecarla]

thats right campbell same with the one i know to :) x

[joko]

they use it to make black pudding...

[netibiza]

Here In Ibiza, they do not embalm bodies, they refrigerate them, and usually bury the next day amid a host of smelly flowers, and you can see the condensation on the coffin yeuk it's horrible.

[khana]

All of this discussion has just confirmed to me that I just want to be thrown in to a cardboard coffin and slung in the ground on the same day that I die.

Fascinating topic, if rather ghastly.

[Clanad]

A small but interesting insight in this process... did you ever notice that the right hand is always crossed over the left? Wonder why it's not the other way? If the left hand were crossed on top of the right, a viewer might be able to look up the sleeve of the deceased... this is deemed as somehow distasteful in our western culture...

[Somebody17]

Once you're dead,you're dead.That's it.