I was reading this book and it had some stuff on the French Revolution and apparently after people were guillotined and their bodies and heads thrown into pits, and then lime was poured onto them? How come the lime? Is the lime thing still done for mass graves or even for individual graves?
This is so morbid but it’s so interesting too. I never thought of how people were buried or whatever, I know they’re washed and put in a coffin and then the coffin is put into the ground. But are the people covered in something when put into the coffin? What do they wear? How deep is the grave? When the body is rotting, how come the wood of the coffin doesnt rot as well? And how come the body rots when nothing can get into it through the wood? like the maggots and stuff comes from inside the body? oh gross. i cant smell anything funky in graveyards, theyre just freaky as hell.
Would you guys like to be buried? and where? I want to be cremated and my ashes thrown somewhere, either the ocean or a forest but apparently that’s not allowed in Islam but I like the idea of not rotting if I’m cremated. What do you want your graves and gravestones to be like?
Hmm and I also wanted to, have burial practices always been the same? I tried looking it up but most of the stuff was about mummification but surely other cultures had their own unique practices.
How many of you have already put down the specifications of your graves and gravestones and funeral into your will?
Apparently chemical process still continue after death. I didn't know that.
"Maximum stiffness is reached around 12-24 hours post mortem. Facial muscles are affected first, with the rigor then spreading to other parts of the body. The joints are stiff for 1-3 days, but after this time general tissue decay and leaking of lysosomal intracellular digestive enzymes will cause the muscles to relax. It is interesting to note that meat is generally considered to be more tender if it is eaten after rigor mortis has passed. "
Gross!!! if the meat is more tender after rigor mortis then why are we not allowed to eat it?
"The calcium ions that flow into the muscle cells promote the cross-bridge attachment between actin and myosin, two types of fibers that work together in muscle contraction. The muscle fibers ratchet shorter and shorter until they are fully contracted or as long as the neurotransmitter acetylcholine and the energy molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) are present. However, muscles need ATP in order to release from a contracted state (it is used to pump the calcium out of the cells so the fibers can unlatch from each other). ATP reserves are quickly exhausted from the muscle contraction and other cellular processes. This means that the actin and myosin fibers will remain linked until the muscles themselves start to decompose. "
SS, read up on how Tibetan Buddhists do it. it is fabulous way to dispose off dead ones. Vultures love it too.
Can you recommend a book? You mentioned vultures so is it anything like how Zaroastrians do it? Like the Tower of Silence and stuff?
Hmm I was also wondering what happens after battles, like back then, what happened to all those dead people and their horses on the battlefields?
" That debris was mainly a matter of rotting horseflesh and human remains – thousands of fermenting bodies, with gas-distended bellies, deliquescing in the July heat. For hygienic reasons, the five thousand horses (or mules) had to be consumed by fire, trading the smell of burning flesh for that of decaying flesh. Eight thousand human bodies were scattered over, or (barely) under the ground. Suffocating teams of soldiers, Confederate prisoners, and dragooned civilians slid the bodies beneath a minimal covering, as fast as possible – crudely posting the names of the Union dead with sketchy information on boards, not stopping to figure out what units the Confederate bodies had belonged to. It was work to be done hugger-mugger or not at all, fighting clustered bluebottle flies black on the earth, shoveling and retching by turns. The buzzards themselves had not stayed to share in this labor – days of incessant shelling had scattered them far off"
And apprarently hogs sometimes devoured protruding limbs. can you saw ewww?
Cremation is ok for me but I hope they wait until I die.
I would like to be burried (ofcourse after I die) according to Islamic principles in a simple mitti ki qabar.
Quite informative and interesting.
ATP : Adenosine triphosphate is fuel for our body cells.(reminds me of school days) :)