What Happens When You Die?

What happens when you finally kicked the bucket, so to speak, the spider mostly science ground the views on death. These days, it seems, many of us believe in life after it in 2014 Uk citizens were pulled by the Telegraph and just under 60% of respondents said they believe some part of us lives on in the US still a very Christian nation pure research in 2015 ask people what happened after you die.

The survey found that 72% of Americans believed you go to heaven, which was described as a place where people who have live good lives are eternally rewarded 54% of US adults replied that they believed in hell, which was described as a place where people who have led bad live and die without being sorry are eternally punished.

With that in mind, welcome to this episode of the infographic show what happens when you die. Don't forget to subscribe and click the bell button so that you can be part of a notification spot. It seems a lot of people do believe that after death. We might be ensconced in some clouds strewn paradise or conversely, if we haven't adhere to the ethics prescribed to us by our chosen religion or denomination of that religion we might be faced with eternal Hellfire and the prospect of traveling to a bearded red man who hardly ever puts down his pitch for but let's start with some empirical realism and what actually happens to the body when we die physicians know you're dead because the heart stops beating and there's no longer any electrical activity in your brain brain death equals dead.

Although machines can keep you going a little bit longer. You can also have what's called a cardiac death, which means the heart stops beating and blood no longer flows through your body the strange even wonderful thing is 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 the light and such a near death experience.

You can be brought back from what we call clinical death but you only have a grace period of about four to six 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 you're a sprinter will to meaning that triple Whopper and large fries, you had for lunch will spill out of you the gaps, you have in. You may also leak out and cause a stink. The same goes for the P you've gotten your bladder so dying. Not surprisingly, is a bit of a messy affair and men.

You might even ejaculate as for women. You may give birth. After you have died if you are pregnant, which is something 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 escape nurses and people working close to dead bodies have regularly reported hearing very alive sounding moans and groans coming from dead bodies. You may Twitch. But this doesn't mean there is life in you.

These are just muscle contractions. You could also soon get an erection. If you died lying on your stomach and the blood flow down there all your blood will pull to a certain area of your body. This is called liver mortis and it's the reason parts of you will have that dark purple colour you have seen on TV. These are the lovely things that can happen quite shortly after you go with no blood flowing through your body will begin to cool down, known as Elgar mortis or simply death chill it will keep pulling until it is the same temperature as their surroundings, you will become stiff within about two to six hours and this we call rigour mortise. This is because calcium is getting into your muscle cells.

Cells breakdown without blood flow and this leads to bacteria growth and that's why you start to decompose you may look like your hair or your nails have grown, but that isn't the case, what is happening is that your skin is receiving giving the impression of growth, the skin will loosen to and blisters will appear on the body. The next stage is purification when bacteria and microorganisms start tasting. You'll soon start to stink as bad as anything you could have imagined while you were alive. One person described the smell like rotten eggs VCs and the used toilet left out for a month times 1000 it is unholy soon everything that itself becomes liquefied with things like bones cartilage and hair remaining strong you're already well on your way to decomposing by the time you are being put in the ground. But if embalmed and buried decomposition could be a slow process left above ground, you'll be a liquefied mess within about a month feasted on by insects maggots plants and animals underground.

Some experts say it might take eight to 12 years before you are reduced to nothing but a skeleton after around 50 years even your bones will become part of your we should add the rate of decomposition depends on all manner of factors too many to list here, but we think you get the picture. Well, some people report that their near-death experience was a scene to behold, that's not always the case one person writing on Reddit said his experience was as follows.

It was just black emptiness no thoughts no consciousness, nothing is there really something else Irish imperious this philosopher George Berkeley was so hell-bent on knowing what happens after death or those moments during clinical death that he actually hanged himself to the point of death with a friend nearby ready to cut them down before he died, he believed there was something between heaven and earth perhaps what philosophers have called the ether, the story has become lore and philosophical circles, but it's thought all Berkeley really discovered was that hanging hurts your neck, French philosopher, Rene Descartes believe the soul was separate from the body as many religions will tell you, and perhaps when we die something lingers on Frederick Nietzsche talked about the concept of eternal recurrence or eternal return meaning all existence or energy in the universe has forever and will forever. Keep repeating itself ad infinitum you live the same life again and again forever. Now doesn't that make you want to live well here we can make similarities to the Buddhist belief of a wheel of samsara where an all souls are lives will begin a cycle again after death, except not the same exact life, something we call reincarnation, which some people say it's connected to what we sometimes called deja vu Buddhists to believe we can end this vicious cycle.

If we can become truly enlightened. Therefore, achieving Nirvana or do we make our way to heaven. After a body stops working tipping our cap to St. Peter at the pearly gates hoping he won't deny us entrance for stealing that candy bar. When we went on a school trip to Niagara Falls. Will we be taken into paradise place replete with excellent foods and gorgeous maidens that make your destinies go weak or will we simply seeing the earth, our souls nothing more than a worldly fancy that took our minds off our cosmic significance and the feeling of utility that we sometimes experience here on terra firma well.