Death

[Lamp]

Is it true or false, that due to the presence of gasses, a recently fresh corpse can actually sit up / fart ?
(I've read things on the net - some say its bollocks, other sites state it as scientific fact)

And don't finger nails still grow for a while after death ?

You occasionally read news items of people waking up to find out they've been buried alive ! Nightmare. Unless you've been trained by a man how to break coffin lids with your fingers (Uma Thurman was - Kill Bill), your goose is well and truly cooked.

 

[Imgormiel]

You sir are indeed correct!

 

[tris-]

in southpark the guy shit him self, so i think its true.

 

[CorNokZ]

Nails/facial hair doesn't grow when a person dies.. The skin contracts which will reveal the nail/hair that was still under the skin when the person died

Dunno about sitting up, but if you had gas in your bowels when you died, your muscles will no longer be able to hold it in and there first the gas might slip out

And what's up with you and dying lately? Afraid you might pass gas when you slit your wrist?

 

[Lamp]

How to kill yourself like a man.

 

[aika]

Write in your will that they should wait 5 days before they bury you.

 

[Zede]

Regarding Paramahansa Yogananda, the dude who brought Yoga to the western world :


As reported in Time Magazine on August 4, 1952, Harry T. Rowe, Los Angeles Mortuary Director of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California where he is interred, stated in a notarized letter:

The absence of any visual signs of decay in the dead body of Paramahansa Yogananda offers the most extraordinary case in our experience.... No physical disintegration was visible in his body even twenty days after death.... No indication of mold was visible on his skin, and no visible drying up took place in the bodily tissues. This state of perfect preservation of a body is, so far as we know from mortuary annals, an unparalleled one.... No odor of decay emanated from his body at any time....

now thats damn weird.

 

[Lamp]

Wierd