One. Your Body Cannibalizes Itself “Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.” — Discovery Magazine Unless, of course the body is […]
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Whatever your beliefs, most people seem to agree that the body left behind when we depart this mortal coil is just a heap of bones and flesh. But what happens to those leftovers? Assuming that nature is left to its own devices, our bodies undergo a fairly standard process of decomposition that can take anywhere […]
It’s a hypothetical question that few of us will have to practically answer. I laid in bed last night thinking about it. Like I do so many nights, I think about my own mortality and the mortality of my loved ones. My wife is off on vacation. And before she left, she semi-seriously talked about her […]
Dr. Richard Smith, a former editor of the British Medical Journal, wrote recently, “death from cancer is the best.” And I think many of us, if not most of us, would disagree — to one extend or another — with Dr. Smith. Cancer can create an embarrassment of dependence for it’s dying victim, causing the possibilities […]