Cooling down

The algor mortis, or “death chill”, is a process that starts a few minutes after death and brings the body temperature down 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit per hour until reaching room temperature.

Just chillin’

If you are planning to be cryogenically frozen, you should have someone starting the procedure ten minutes after your death. No pressure.

The Near Death gamble.

Studies showed that the content of the majority of Near Death Experiences don’t vary much by cultures: generally, they have some common elements (sense of peace, separation from the body, light at the end of the tunnel…).
The element of variance is the identity of the figures that are sometimes “seen” in such occasions, like Jesus for Christians or Yamaraja for Hindus, and so on.
Of course though, NDE are not necessarily positive: 20% of the people who had one described it as hellish and very distressing, often with a black void instead of the light, and a demonic figure taunting the subject. Religion does not affect the chances of having a bad NDE, and children are apparently “immune” to them.

Ashes to ashes, wax to wax

There is a chance that, after you die, your body will end up covered in wax. That happens only if the body come in contacts with cold water or soil, which makes it develop a waxy material called adipocere – formed from the bacteria breaking down the tissue – that functions as a natural preservative.

The light at the end of the tunnel

The “life that flashes before your eyes” on someone’s last moments phenomenon has a very scientific explanation: it is now believed that in the few seconds before death, the brain becomes  hyper-aware, causing unexpected things to happen. The gradual loss of blood and oxygen has a role in it as well.

You might be dead, but you are not ALL dead

If you are a male and die face down, you are very likely to get a post-mortem boner.

Two for one

Biological death is the death of brain cells due to lack of oxygen, and normally comes four to six minutes after clinical death, which occurs when the heart ceases to beat.

Hear this

When a person dies, their sense of hearing is the last to go.