The concept of an afterlife is a truly fascinating topic. There is no proof that one exists, the same that there is none that one does not. No one truly knows what happens after we die, because they're all dead. I always think of it this way: If you suffer from amnesia, the events you experienced prior to having amnesia cease to exist, like you never had experienced them at all. Essentially, you jump from one point in your history to the next. Whereas with life, you experience all of it, aware of everything. I find it astronomically difficult to grasp the concept of all the extreme awareness I am experiencing suddenly gone, as if it never happened. Boom, dead, as if I had never lived at all. It's something I'll never grasp my mind around until the moment I die.
I'm a Cna, and usually in hospitals cna's do all the post mortem care.. And Let me tell you one thing, the smell of death is the one thing you will never forget. Ever! It starts off as a mild sweat smell and as time goes by it turns into a sour rotting smell mixed with sweat. So far it's been the most gut wrenching thing I've ever dealt with. And advice for anyone who would be in this position, clean up the body as soon as they die, because as minutes go by, the body turns cold and the smell takes your breath away.(not in a good way). The first time I threw up 6 times because it had been 4 hours since time of death. 😣.
I am a cop and let me tell you there's nothing more disgusting than trying to move someone who has passed away and their skin comes away in your hand like tissue paper! Takes a very strong stomach to deal with death.
Yup. I've smelled it. My snake missed one of his mice, and it baked under his heat lamp over night. I found it in full on bloat-stage and it was the most awful smell I have ever smelled. Oozing, too. Even worse than a decomposing cow I came across... that was a bit further along in the process, and smelled gross, but more tolerably rotten? Almost like a septic tank smell. The bloated mouse was indescribably pungent. The smell of feces is like a breath of spring air compared it.
this video reminded me of those new tree pods... where a persons body fertilizes a tree? That idea to me is amazing... that we as humans could give life to something through our death...instead of being burned into ashes, shoved in a drawer, or buried in a box. Very interesting videos. Thanks for your thoughts every week. New subscriber =)
I've smelled death unfortunately, this part here is quite gross. I grew up in a house with a big garden, near a small river, and had 2 dogs, a German sheepherder and a hunting dog (don't know the name in English). So yeah sometimes the dogs killed little animals, mice regularly, some of the neighbors cats, and even birds sometimes. One thing my dog loved to do was leave the corpse near the entrance probably to show off how much of a good boy he was.... Guess who has to clean it up? yup me. Generally it was grouse but they were fresh corpses so it wasn't as bad. But one morning he left this big mouse, and the corpse was already being decomposing, to the point where when I was picking it up with a spade, it turned over and I could see parts of the skin green and small, small worms in it, mixed with the most disgusting and disturbing smell I ever smelled. All this when I was like 12 or 13... ugh. I had to move away for a couple seconds, regain my courage, pull my shirt over my nose so I couldn't feel the smell as much and finally I was able to get the mouse and throw him out. Then I put the spade I used in a small water tank filled with bleach, and it stayed there until for hours xD...
Did you not supervise the dogs? I get it that they might kill wild animals every once in a while but the neighbor's cats?! That's terrible! Whoever got the dogs should have trained them and been responsible because it must have been terrible for that poor family to lose their cats because you were an irresponsible pet owner.
Yes, last year on a very hot summers day over here in the UK, me and my mum drove past a church where a funeral was being held, and there was this very strong oder smell to say as if someone had left a corpse outside in the scorching hot sun to decompose... the smell was so strong that I felt like I was going to be sick, and I guest that was the smell... of a funeral on a hot summers day.
As a nurse we are encouraged to further education, as I worked in an operating theatre, at the time I write off it was orthopaedic trauma, that means all road traffic accident's sports injuries, old people falling and breaking hips or femurs (thigh bones) people injured with chainsaws, factory machinery and so on. I elected to attend a post mortum, or as in the US autopsy. Trust me the smell from a corpse who had died less than 24 hours in hospital and had been refrigerated within 30 minutes of death, one wouldn't want to willingly smell, this PM was performed without the need to dissect the bowl - then a whole new layer of smell would be added. The body does smell when it's being operated on, but nothing like a corpse.
i heard that even if you have never smelled a dead body before, humans know what that smell is when you smell it for the first time. it is very unique smell and we know it right away for it being a dead person. i wonder if that is true. i never smelled that before, and hope i never do.
bkbing also here's a grim thing you can smell death before something dies and thats how predators get to something before it start to decompose and if that animals that smells of death is not dead yet they will kill it and eat it.
bkbing not really. One day I went outside and I got a smell. Right after me, my father came outside so I asked him what smell it was. He said that it smelled like a carcass but I didnt believe him. Then we looked around and found a dead cat near our house. It had been dead for 2 days and it was rotting. I didn't know right away.
bkbing We all die but real trick is if there life after death in which in fact i know there is.Because this how it goes,It starts with the ten commandments and ends with revalations.It starts with the bible and ends with the bible.Its starts within youre heart and ends within youre heart.And finally it starts with JESUS and ends with GOD thats it the end.There is no one after GOD or after...believe GOD is real and HEAVEN too......oh i forgot thanxs and god bless
My opinion on this that when a person dies everything just stops your heart stops pumping blood through out the entire body , your hearing shuts down So when the body shuts down It is natural that the body is going to feel cold .
The stages of death are as follows Palor Mortis- Latin for the paleness of death Algor Mortis- Coldness of death Rigor Mortis- Stiffness of death Livor Mortis- Bluish color of death Fresh Decomposition Active Decomp Advanced Decomp Putrification Skeletonisation
Yeah..i use to be a paramedic, I had a call one day about a doa and had no more info to go on so we went to the house and found an elderly lady that had suffocated on her own vomit, I'm not sure what she was doing but she had discarded tissues in her mouth as if she were trying to eat the to soak up the vomit..but regardless when I got there she had been dead for well over 72 hours and had already voided her bowls..the smell of death is honestly indescribable..the smell of death on top of the smell of her 3 cats who had been trapped in the house for over 72 hours was definitely something else.
I think we smell the worse because we humans are the most sinful hateful animals worse than all these other species bcoz animals like elephants ,lions, flies chicken fish or whales and serpents including birds they don't have ANY SIN inside them but we DO and I think the other reasons could be that other animals are aware that some kind of a god has passed on or some kind of a look alike of the real GOD has passed. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 states that we are the IMAGE of GOD and Apostle Paul cites it in his writings of Galatians chapter 6 v 17 that we have MARK/ DNA of CHRIST and also in Romans the schriptures states that we HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST as well as the SEED of Abraham. Which somehow makes sense on why we are called the SEED bcoz after our soul departs to its owner who created it the corpse has to go back where is came from and that's CLAY or SOIL where we were created from. GOD breathed his BREATH inside us, Job 27 read it all. Psalms 82 verse 6 as well. Psalms chapter 14 as well tells us what we are meant to be.The fact that JESUS came to die for me and you says it all. It means we are the most loved beings by GOD and HIS wish is that no one perishes to the eternal judgement of continual torture and burn continual in GEHENA.John chapter 3 verse 16. You guys I love you all and am learning so much from you here on this topic.
I was a police officer, now I assist in doing autopsies. I have gotten the chance to see, smell, touch, and pull organs out of many people at all levels of decomposition. The smell is very different. Fresher death has a different smell than decomposing smell. Decomp. Smell has a strong gag inducing sweet smell. Human death is very interesting. There is a level of sadness and curiosity in what I do but I like my job.
i work with animals a lot and yeah the smell of death is very unique and hard to explain it's not rotting because that hasn't really taken hold but it's similar to it and smells similar to blood and intestinal smells mixed together with another smell that i can't describe. Also people and animals will start to smell of death before they are actually dead so you can tell if something or someone will die.
one of my best friends almost died by drowning. but the thing is that when he was in the water he had like a gallery in his face like he could see pictures of his future and his dead relatives...... creepy
I use to do security and this elderly lady who lived on her own died. Mind you she had been dead for 2 weeks when her neighbors smell this extreme odor. I tell you when I went onto the floor and made it to her door my tongue literally wanted to jump out of my mouth. Sort of like a gag reaction and saliva filled my mouth. At that point I punked out so I didn't get to physically see the body.
I 'smelled death' once, there was a dead sheep in the river I happened to be kayaking through. It looked pretty horrible too, the wool was falling off and it's skin was green underneath.
How do you know what death smells like? I have a pretty good idea but I’ve never smelled it. But you forgot to mention the gas released by bacteria can do other things too. For example one possibility of where vampires came from is due to gas. When you die, bacteria in your intestines and stomach release gas and that gas usually pushes lunch out your mouth. But back then it could also push out blood due to diseases like consumption (TB). When grace robbers or medical surgeons (corpses were how surgeons practiced back then because they couldn’t get supplies for obvious reasons) dug up graves there would sometimes be blood all over the mouth despite the fact it was cleaned before burial. As fear of the unexplained overtook reason they decapitated the head and put it between the feet and/or put a stake through the heart. (Not sure how that part came to be). There are other possibilities for how the legends of vampires came about like vampire syndrome and werewolf syndrome but that’s for another time.
I'm an RN, and I can official say nearly all of these are correct. Again, I think it comes down to nature and the individuals circumstances into which order these happen.
Not a single particle in your body vanishes forever after death. Therefore, even from a materialistic perspective, neither should consciousness. If consciousness = brain = collection of particles in a specific order, they never completely vanish, they only change form until it returns to that state.
If consciousness = brain = collection of particles in a specific order, then once those particles are taken out of that order, surely there's no more consciousness? As an analogy, consider you have a bunch of fridge magnets that spell the word "ALIVE". What if you were to jumble the letters? Yes, the letters would still exist, but they would no longer spell the word "ALIVE". And so the word "ALIVE" as spelled by the magnets no longer exists as a coherent entity (i.e. because the magnets are not spelling "ALIVE"). And so a brain that has been reduced to its constituent particles would no longer hold a consciousness.
Calamitous CPU Of course, I'm not denying that there isn't a kind of "unconsciousness", but I'm simply saying that as long as the matter is there, there is potential for that matter to return to that state. And death is like sleep, we become unconscious until our next life. But even when taken apart, all of the pieces still exist, everything that makes consciousness what it is would still exist, just as separate entities. Like if you took away someones ears, that wouldn't mean they no longer have the other kinds of consciousness. In fact it wouldn't even mean the ears themselves no longer "hear", it is simply the broken connection that causes you personally not to experience it. It could be argued that even basic atoms experience light and sound etc because of this, you can't produce an ability from a complete absence of said ability. At some point in the next forever, our matter is surely bound to return to the state it is in now. And also, our matter has a past, that goes on for as long as time itself (presumably forever, considering you can't get something from nothing at all), how many past lives has our brain matter had?
TheColaGoodfellow that's quite a lot of points. I don't thinkI can address all of them, since I'm currrently on mobile and I can't scroll up while writing a comment (???). Consciousness resides in the brain, it is not a property of inanimate matter. That's what neurology and basic observation tells us anyway. When you destroy the brain, its consciousness dies with it. It doesn't live on within the particles that once composed it (except maybe in a poetic sense e.g. "grandma has returned to the earth from which she came". Yes, her particles do return to the soil, but she as a person ceased to exist the moment her brain stopped functioning, so there's no "her" to return to anything.) Granted, it's not known which part of the brain generates consciousness. There may not even be a "seat of consciousness", but rather multiple parts of the brain working together to create a coherent mind. And no, an ear cannot hear on its own. It is the brain that does the hearing i.e. it interprets signals sent by the ear as sounds. A severed ear will not perceive sounds because it does not possess a brain of its own. This applies to all the other organs, too. Likewise, an atom cannot be conscious unless it has a brain or equivalent system. Which is highly unlikely. And yes, the atoms that made up yoyr body may eventually come together to form a sentient being, but that doesn't make the resulting creature "you". They could become a rat, a maggot or even a plant, or they could be digested by worms and turned into humus. My point is, your constituents are not a part of your consciousness, nor do they contain any aspect of it. Consciousness is best thought of as a process, not a physical entity; a process generated solely by the brain, with no seperate existance.
I am watching this after learning I have terminal brain cancer and I'm going to die within 6 months.scary to know this will happen to my body. Im crying right now. I'm only human
Oh yeah I know the smell of death. I was 20 years old - first apartment. Next door neighbor was an older man. We noticed we didn't see him about and a weird odor emanated from his apartment. Turns out he was dead for a while and the smells were of course that very process you describe.
Im a makeup artist for a local funeral home and the smell of death is sometimes a sweet smell...Or if a body has sat in a home for a few days in 80 degree weather it's a smell I cannot describe yuck!!
you probably won't read this since it's been two years but if you are still interested in death, watch Ask A Mortician on youtube. She's so knowledgeable about death and all that it entails.
Again I’m not against non existence at all however we don’t even 100% know what happens before conception if there is a spiritual aspects to things. Plus energy can’t be destroyed only transferred so again we really don’t know until it happens.
I had to dig up my sister's dead dog after her neighbor threatened to call the cops on her. It had been in the ground for about 3 or 4 days and smelled horrible! I'm fairly certain humans decompose the same way a dog does
we have to map human body to a computer , than mapping entire universe into a computer, what fools are we!!!, they are having maps and road ways between galaxies yet we have figured out what death is or why are we human or why we have bodies that feel, what can support us is we are stupid on surviving rather than why we have to survive ??
I did. Post-mort. care for years. If one dies with eyes I learned that rig. won't happen right away. I think that I remember 11. 12 hours after death. We gently closed eye lids by holding the eye lashes and slowly pulling down.
Bobby Harper They don't. Some of our natural behavior may be emergent (ie: not commiting suicide) but I'd say 99.9% of our social behavior depends on being directly or indirectly taught to us by other people
First time smelling 'death' was on my first paramedic placement.. I felt sorry for the firefighters who were the first to open the door. Can't really describe the smell to friends besides using trash dump x1000000 lol
Decomposing artificially doesn't have an effect on the natural cycle. At most sending your ashes in space (after they decomposed artificially) have an arguably minimal impact on the natural cycle. No harm made, so yeah, your loaded question is invalid.
My grandpa lived and died in a different country, and after a year where he was buried there, his corpse was moved to his home country, my country, to be buried where he wanted. I couldn't attend the first funural, but the smell surrounding the second funural was the most disgusting thing i have ever smelled. What a way to say goodbye to grandpa....
It would be interesting if we could model how much more different the world would be if everyone was buried when they died (just body in ground, not body in casket in ground). I wonder because of the amount of nutrients the world would get from 7 billion humans is effectively taken away because we place our bodies in a holding cell where the nutrients go to waste. So I wonder if we could do an animated prediction model of the earth if humans never used coffins/caskets/cremation, and just let our bodies decompose underground
I mean, it's gross. It's nasty, it's dirty, it's not fun. I experienced it, not a human but a cat. I was inside my house watching TV, then my mother told me there was a dead cat outside, she told me to throw it. I have no choice so I get some plastic bags and go check out the crime scene. It was laying there, at first nothing really happened, untill I got close to it, oh boy does it smell great. The whole cats body was like, cut in half, eww. I started to pick it up, it was cold, and then the cats inside started to slide out, wtf I nearly puked, after that I immediately go washed my hands. It was unpleasant.
Just to add little to the gross theme: In case you haven't been munched on by animals and got new holes in you, insects lay their eggs in places of the easiest acces into your body - basically into your bodily orifices. You know, mouth, anus, vagina and stuff. And if you poop yourself, there are insects (and snails) for that too.
The human body is disgusting. This suit of flesh that we wear is fragile and is very sickening. It's biodegradable, it goes back to the materials it was made from (dirt). Good riddance!
It's horrible very upsetting it was January 3rd 2021 I found my mum dead in bed that morning she must have died that night before because she was white and stiffness had set in it was horrible and so upsetting ill be haunted by that for the rest of my life and I lost my dad in September 2018 as well.
You never die, although your brain and organs do rot away the cells and bacteria still fight on, its like slime monsters dying just to split into more slime monsters. =)
You essentially become one with the universe. Capable of consciousness expansion into its sheer infinity due to the infinite nature of the universe itself. Our physical, flesh and blood minds are not capable of understanding that because of their sheer limited physicality. Spirituality has not been fully reached by science, and most likely it will never be, because of its infinitely complicated truths and secrets, that are nonetheless, a jewel of life itself. I believe death to truly be the most beautiful experience anyone can have, in a spiritual sense.
Polydynamix It's a common belief that consciousness dies at death, but you can't just turn back and ignore the *thousands* of anecdotes by people who have actually been clinically dead, sometimes up to 3 days, and came back to tell equally amazing stories. It IS true that most people get a sharp jolt of mental activity JUST right before death, but these NDE's have happened to people who didn't even have the slightest amount of mental activity due to their disease literally killing their whole brain. I don't think it's eloquent to dismiss something just because one has a very limited understanding of it. We are much more than our brain, we are energy and vibration as well.
I'm not arguing against the religion perception of people. It is true that even in the times when Greek mythology was prominent, people would often see Zeus and other gods that they grew up believing in. We are talking about people who have been dead for multiple hours if not *days*. There is no way possible for the brain to survive without oxygen for that long, so that discounts your first argument. Furthermore, no one has been able to explain how people who die are able to know what's going in a place where there is no possible way for them to see or hear the situation, and there have been hundreds of cases like this one. There have been cases in which people, to prove that they actually went through something REAL and not imagined, point out certain objects in places where they otherwise would've never had access to or never have seen (ie. a very detailed description of a teddy bear lying on top of a hospital roof). It's not because it's "comforting" (which it is) that I believe in it. It's because the anecdotal evidence is much stronger than what we can possibly know as we advance in science. And dismissing it to me seems like the worst and laziest decision scientists can make. Because science is there to discover the truth some way or another, after all.
Polydynamix It's not my fault you like to resort to silly examples that have nothing to do with the conversation to try and point out something wrong, knowing you have been beaten by every other thing I said. Not my fault you're a lazy thinker either. Your life, not mine.
Polydynamix No, you are just twisting the belief of little kids who know nothing of the world, and then comparing that to a phenomenon reported by thousands of people who have ACTUALLY been on the other side, and are able to point out physical things to prove their experience. You're a real smug individual to think you know more than thousands of people who actually know what they went through.
Polydynamix Okay, what evidence do YOU have? Mr. Know-It all? You have NONE. And that's why you refuse to even talk about how these people have proven their experience by PHYSICAL means. It's not flimsy evidence, it's just people like you being domesticated by their own beliefs and closing their mind to anything else for sheer laziness and close-mindedness. You will never be able to argue against these people with a good support because you will never have it.
well people. I read some comments. I am quite sad, the fact that my fellow beings think that this life is all they have, then they will cease to exist... as if no accounting for actions will take place.. let any man who has a brain, ponder, search up death purpose of life and the islamic perspective ..just some food for thought
Hey does anyone know what would happen to a body if you can't afford a funeral? I mean you can't really leave a dead person in your back yard, would the state take it? And then what would they do with it? Just curious...
very very very old people smell diferendtly ,I and some other people describes it like smell of death,like someone came for them if you understand me :D
Movies have led us to believe you can hold your dead mates in your arms and cry...can you imagine!! the person you're holding starts pooping at that time! Moment Ruined! Oh man, i'm really sorry for my imagination, it just got more worse...i wonder how many poor nurses have had to scrape dead people poop off the sheets man! Nasty!
I remember in a dream that I was in my house. I was walking down my hallway and saw blackness. I saw the room to my door closed where my younger brother is, with the light blocked from me. Then I looked to my laptop with the light blocked off and only blackness. Then I saw nothing but blackness. I don't remember smiling but an immediate frown came upon my face. There's no comfort. I then asked, "God can you at least give me my pillow for comfort." It was taken away. Then I heard a voice yelling something to the extent, "Why didn't you use me as your comfort?" There is only blackness there. Don't go to that place. Follow Jesus. I barely have joy in anything anymore. I broke up with my gf recently and I didn't care. I only cared about what God thought of me. Nothing in this world matters. Everything is so empty without God. Use God as your comforter. I used to have problems going to sleep and God has comforted me through it. Jesus is King Messiah and the Son of God and God. He died and rose again for your sins.
I respect your Religion, but I'm not going to believe it, because I just don't see it as possible. But you can keep believing what you feel is right. I don't follow the bible, but I still believe you should treat others right. :) -From An Atheist.
Lenny George I used to think of myself as a great person, I called myself a Christian, despite the fact that I used to preach against Jesus. If you can believe. Then I got baptized in the name of Jesus. For the repentance of sins and to receive the Spirit. I now know that I never followed Jesus or His word. I thought that I was great and I wasn't. Just because you "know" that you should treat others right doesn't mean that you actually do, or actually follow it. Love God and Jesus. "If you love me you'll follow my commands" and Love others. There are no greater commands than those.
***** no it's not. You or any animal will smell of death before they die and before decomp and its is a smell that is very unique and pretty much impossible to describe.
I really want help to get a mentor who can train me on how to become a coroner ive had this passion before I became a mental health nurse and also before I got diagnosed with fibromylagia and I got injured while on duty at work. pls if someone is there pls I need a sponsor.I really have passion about this and am very secretive person.
The concept of an afterlife is a truly fascinating topic. There is no proof that one exists, the same that there is none that one does not. No one truly knows what happens after we die, because they're all dead.
I always think of it this way: If you suffer from amnesia, the events you experienced prior to having amnesia cease to exist, like you never had experienced them at all. Essentially, you jump from one point in your history to the next. Whereas with life, you experience all of it, aware of everything. I find it astronomically difficult to grasp the concept of all the extreme awareness I am experiencing suddenly gone, as if it never happened. Boom, dead, as if I had never lived at all. It's something I'll never grasp my mind around until the moment I die.
I'm a Cna, and usually in hospitals cna's do all the post mortem care.. And Let me tell you one thing, the smell of death is the one thing you will never forget. Ever! It starts off as a mild sweat smell and as time goes by it turns into a sour rotting smell mixed with sweat. So far it's been the most gut wrenching thing I've ever dealt with. And advice for anyone who would be in this position, clean up the body as soon as they die, because as minutes go by, the body turns cold and the smell takes your breath away.(not in a good way). The first time I threw up 6 times because it had been 4 hours since time of death. 😣.
And the smell of a dead animal does not even begin to compare to the one of a dead body. Can't imagine a body after days.
Ahhh yes I have done lots of post mortem care. You can never forget the smell
i probably shouldn't have been eating while watching this.....
So south park was right.
I am a cop and let me tell you there's nothing more disgusting than trying to move someone who has passed away and their skin comes away in your hand like tissue paper! Takes a very strong stomach to deal with death.
Ryan Dougan yep done that really not fun at all and it's super hard to get the smell off you and your clothes.
+Deon Kosh hahahaaha made my day
Deon Kosh what the fuck's the matter with you?
Ryan D wow! That's disgusting
i cant even go to someones grave without feeling weird, let alone holding a dead person
can you people please start numbering this videos it is really difficult to find the videos sequentially
I never smelled a dead human, but I did follow an odd smell in my apartment to find a dead mouse one time.
Yup. I've smelled it. My snake missed one of his mice, and it baked under his heat lamp over night. I found it in full on bloat-stage and it was the most awful smell I have ever smelled. Oozing, too. Even worse than a decomposing cow I came across... that was a bit further along in the process, and smelled gross, but more tolerably rotten? Almost like a septic tank smell. The bloated mouse was indescribably pungent. The smell of feces is like a breath of spring air compared it.
Thanks for making my day with this depressing vision of my future.
why are you here. who put you into existence?
Not like it's gonna happen only to you. Might as well accept it.
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this video reminded me of those new tree pods... where a persons body fertilizes a tree? That idea to me is amazing... that we as humans could give life to something through our death...instead of being burned into ashes, shoved in a drawer, or buried in a box. Very interesting videos. Thanks for your thoughts every week. New subscriber =)
I've smelled death unfortunately, this part here is quite gross.
I grew up in a house with a big garden, near a small river, and had 2 dogs, a German sheepherder and a hunting dog (don't know the name in English). So yeah sometimes the dogs killed little animals, mice regularly, some of the neighbors cats, and even birds sometimes. One thing my dog loved to do was leave the corpse near the entrance probably to show off how much of a good boy he was.... Guess who has to clean it up? yup me. Generally it was grouse but they were fresh corpses so it wasn't as bad. But one morning he left this big mouse, and the corpse was already being decomposing, to the point where when I was picking it up with a spade, it turned over and I could see parts of the skin green and small, small worms in it, mixed with the most disgusting and disturbing smell I ever smelled. All this when I was like 12 or 13... ugh. I had to move away for a couple seconds, regain my courage, pull my shirt over my nose so I couldn't feel the smell as much and finally I was able to get the mouse and throw him out. Then I put the spade I used in a small water tank filled with bleach, and it stayed there until for hours xD...
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Did you not supervise the dogs? I get it that they might kill wild animals every once in a while but the neighbor's cats?! That's terrible! Whoever got the dogs should have trained them and been responsible because it must have been terrible for that poor family to lose their cats because you were an irresponsible pet owner.
Yes, last year on a very hot summers day over here in the UK, me and my mum drove past a church where a funeral was being held, and there was this very strong oder smell to say as if someone had left a corpse outside in the scorching hot sun to decompose... the smell was so strong that I felt like I was going to be sick, and I guest that was the smell... of a funeral on a hot summers day.
If only Trace was my biology teacher back in high school.
might suck but in reality we're all going to die one day one way or another like it or lump it.
Very likely but that's not reality. No one can predict the future.
At the end when he said "It's just stuff"- that hit me hard. Incredible work
Surprisingly enough I could eat while watching this and not be grossed out at all
As a nurse we are encouraged to further education, as I worked in an operating theatre, at the time I write off it was orthopaedic trauma, that means all road traffic accident's sports injuries, old people falling and breaking hips or femurs (thigh bones) people injured with chainsaws, factory machinery and so on. I elected to attend a post mortum, or as in the US autopsy. Trust me the smell from a corpse who had died less than 24 hours in hospital and had been refrigerated within 30 minutes of death, one wouldn't want to willingly smell, this PM was performed without the need to dissect the bowl - then a whole new layer of smell would be added. The body does smell when it's being operated on, but nothing like a corpse.
i heard that even if you have never smelled a dead body before, humans know what that smell is when you smell it for the first time. it is very unique smell and we know it right away for it being a dead person. i wonder if that is true. i never smelled that before, and hope i never do.
bkbing also here's a grim thing you can smell death before something dies and thats how predators get to something before it start to decompose and if that animals that smells of death is not dead yet they will kill it and eat it.
o i did not know that
bkbing not really. One day I went outside and I got a smell. Right after me, my father came outside so I asked him what smell it was. He said that it smelled like a carcass but I didnt believe him. Then we looked around and found a dead cat near our house. It had been dead for 2 days and it was rotting. I didn't know right away.
bkbing We all die but real trick is if there life after death in which in fact i know there is.Because this how it goes,It starts with the ten commandments and ends with revalations.It starts with the bible and ends with the bible.Its starts within youre heart and ends within youre heart.And finally it starts with JESUS and ends with GOD thats it the end.There is no one after GOD or after...believe GOD is real and HEAVEN too......oh i forgot thanxs and god bless
why did you have to go all god like hector wasn't even relevant to what we were talking about.
My best friend passed away almost two years ago and he had a open casket at his funeral, I touched him and I've never felt a human so cold.
My opinion on this that when a person dies
everything just stops your heart stops
pumping blood through out the entire
body , your hearing shuts down
So when the body shuts down
It is natural that the body is going
to feel cold .
You decompose, That's it
Dan some brain some were produces sentients and that is you, with all your memories.
Dan you will be in spirit from after death
Trump 2016 They're already dead, I killed them.
Dan thats your body not your soul
agreed
If I watch any more of these videos, my head will explode. 😂
The stages of death are as follows
Palor Mortis- Latin for the paleness of death
Algor Mortis- Coldness of death
Rigor Mortis- Stiffness of death
Livor Mortis- Bluish color of death
Fresh Decomposition
Active Decomp
Advanced Decomp
Putrification
Skeletonisation
Can you do a video on Money?
Exactly how much money exists in the world and stuff that?
Richest and poorest, wealth distribution?
Yeah..i use to be a paramedic, I had a call one day about a doa and had no more info to go on so we went to the house and found an elderly lady that had suffocated on her own vomit, I'm not sure what she was doing but she had discarded tissues in her mouth as if she were trying to eat the to soak up the vomit..but regardless when I got there she had been dead for well over 72 hours and had already voided her bowls..the smell of death is honestly indescribable..the smell of death on top of the smell of her 3 cats who had been trapped in the house for over 72 hours was definitely something else.
I think we smell the worse because we humans are the most sinful hateful animals worse than all these other species bcoz animals like elephants ,lions, flies chicken fish or whales and serpents including birds they don't have ANY SIN inside them but we DO and I think the other reasons could be that other animals are aware that some kind of a god has passed on or some kind of a look alike of the real GOD has passed. Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 states that we are the IMAGE of GOD and Apostle Paul cites it in his writings of Galatians chapter 6 v 17 that we have MARK/ DNA of CHRIST and also in Romans the schriptures states that we HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST as well as the SEED of Abraham. Which somehow makes sense on why we are called the SEED bcoz after our soul departs to its owner who created it the corpse has to go back where is came from and that's CLAY or SOIL where we were created from. GOD breathed his BREATH inside us, Job 27 read it all. Psalms 82 verse 6 as well. Psalms chapter 14 as well tells us what we are meant to be.The fact that JESUS came to die for me and you says it all. It means we are the most loved beings by GOD and HIS wish is that no one perishes to the eternal judgement of continual torture and burn continual in GEHENA.John chapter 3 verse 16. You guys I love you all and am learning so much from you here on this topic.
I was a police officer, now I assist in doing autopsies. I have gotten the chance to see, smell, touch, and pull organs out of many people at all levels of decomposition. The smell is very different. Fresher death has a different smell than decomposing smell. Decomp. Smell has a strong gag inducing sweet smell. Human death is very interesting. There is a level of sadness and curiosity in what I do but I like my job.
you respawn
Death by trickshot, the most painful.
Sadly this sounds less asinine then magical angels sending you to heaven to be with Jesus forever.
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you atheist shouldn't assume things
I'm depressed now
When you say acids build up around 4:11, pH actually goes down - not up. Thanks for the video!
i work with animals a lot and yeah the smell of death is very unique and hard to explain it's not rotting because that hasn't really taken hold but it's similar to it and smells similar to blood and intestinal smells mixed together with another smell that i can't describe.
Also people and animals will start to smell of death before they are actually dead so you can tell if something or someone will die.
fuck that Im gonna live forever
one of my best friends almost died by drowning. but the thing is that when he was in the water he had like a gallery in his face like he could see pictures of his future and his dead relatives...... creepy
I use to do security and this elderly lady who lived on her own died. Mind you she had been dead for 2 weeks when her neighbors smell this extreme odor. I tell you when I went onto the floor and made it to her door my tongue literally wanted to jump out of my mouth. Sort of like a gag reaction and saliva filled my mouth. At that point I punked out so I didn't get to physically see the body.
Trace you are awesome i love these videos, very interesting, love your funny comments and the parts where you give your own point of view.
I 'smelled death' once, there was a dead sheep in the river I happened to be kayaking through. It looked pretty horrible too, the wool was falling off and it's skin was green underneath.
Trace, I actually wasn't grossed out and as fascinated as you are
I LOVE YOUR SHOW!!!!! Thank you sooooo much!!! it's so informative!!!! im watching every episode :)
How do you know what death smells like? I have a pretty good idea but I’ve never smelled it. But you forgot to mention the gas released by bacteria can do other things too. For example one possibility of where vampires came from is due to gas. When you die, bacteria in your intestines and stomach release gas and that gas usually pushes lunch out your mouth. But back then it could also push out blood due to diseases like consumption (TB). When grace robbers or medical surgeons (corpses were how surgeons practiced back then because they couldn’t get supplies for obvious reasons) dug up graves there would sometimes be blood all over the mouth despite the fact it was cleaned before burial. As fear of the unexplained overtook reason they decapitated the head and put it between the feet and/or put a stake through the heart. (Not sure how that part came to be). There are other possibilities for how the legends of vampires came about like vampire syndrome and werewolf syndrome but that’s for another time.
First 👌Great video, Trace! Loving the topic.
I'm an RN, and I can official say nearly all of these are correct. Again, I think it comes down to nature and the individuals circumstances into which order these happen.
Not a single particle in your body vanishes forever after death.
Therefore, even from a materialistic perspective, neither should consciousness.
If consciousness = brain = collection of particles in a specific order, they never completely vanish, they only change form until it returns to that state.
TheColaGoodfellow I feel as if I just watched the end of a VSauce episode.
If consciousness = brain = collection of particles in a specific order, then once those particles are taken out of that order, surely there's no more consciousness?
As an analogy, consider you have a bunch of fridge magnets that spell the word "ALIVE". What if you were to jumble the letters? Yes, the letters would still exist, but they would no longer spell the word "ALIVE". And so the word "ALIVE" as spelled by the magnets no longer exists as a coherent entity (i.e. because the magnets are not spelling "ALIVE"). And so a brain that has been reduced to its constituent particles would no longer hold a consciousness.
Calamitous CPU
Of course, I'm not denying that there isn't a kind of "unconsciousness", but I'm simply saying that as long as the matter is there, there is potential for that matter to return to that state. And death is like sleep, we become unconscious until our next life.
But even when taken apart, all of the pieces still exist, everything that makes consciousness what it is would still exist, just as separate entities.
Like if you took away someones ears, that wouldn't mean they no longer have the other kinds of consciousness. In fact it wouldn't even mean the ears themselves no longer "hear", it is simply the broken connection that causes you personally not to experience it.
It could be argued that even basic atoms experience light and sound etc because of this, you can't produce an ability from a complete absence of said ability.
At some point in the next forever, our matter is surely bound to return to the state it is in now.
And also, our matter has a past, that goes on for as long as time itself (presumably forever, considering you can't get something from nothing at all), how many past lives has our brain matter had?
TheColaGoodfellow that's quite a lot of points. I don't thinkI can address all of them, since I'm currrently on mobile and I can't scroll up while writing a comment (???).
Consciousness resides in the brain, it is not a property of inanimate matter. That's what neurology and basic observation tells us anyway. When you destroy the brain, its consciousness dies with it. It doesn't live on within the particles that once composed it (except maybe in a poetic sense e.g. "grandma has returned to the earth from which she came". Yes, her particles do return to the soil, but she as a person ceased to exist the moment her brain stopped functioning, so there's no "her" to return to anything.)
Granted, it's not known which part of the brain generates consciousness. There may not even be a "seat of consciousness", but rather multiple parts of the brain working together to create a coherent mind.
And no, an ear cannot hear on its own. It is the brain that does the hearing i.e. it interprets signals sent by the ear as sounds. A severed ear will not perceive sounds because it does not possess a brain of its own. This applies to all the other organs, too.
Likewise, an atom cannot be conscious unless it has a brain or equivalent system. Which is highly unlikely.
And yes, the atoms that made up yoyr body may eventually come together to form a sentient being, but that doesn't make the resulting creature "you". They could become a rat, a maggot or even a plant, or they could be digested by worms and turned into humus.
My point is, your constituents are not a part of your consciousness, nor do they contain any aspect of it. Consciousness is best thought of as a process, not a physical entity; a process generated solely by the brain, with no seperate existance.
I am watching this after learning I have terminal brain cancer and I'm going to die within 6 months.scary to know this will happen to my body. Im crying right now. I'm only human
Oh yeah I know the smell of death. I was 20 years old - first apartment. Next door neighbor was an older man. We noticed we didn't see him about and a weird odor emanated from his apartment. Turns out he was dead for a while and the smells were of course that very process you describe.
Im a makeup artist for a local funeral home and the smell of death is sometimes a sweet smell...Or if a body has sat in a home for a few days in 80 degree weather it's a smell I cannot describe yuck!!
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you probably won't read this since it's been two years but if you are still interested in death, watch Ask A Mortician on youtube. She's so knowledgeable about death and all that it entails.
I am watching this the night before I have school
Why can't you use prompter? It takes hell of a patience to watch your videos, on this channel.
I've smelled both, natural by decomposition and burnt to a charcoal by auto accident! They both were unique smells and you can never forget them!
The same as before you were born
oh sweet, infinite sex
Again I’m not against non existence at all however we don’t even 100% know what happens before conception if there is a spiritual aspects to things. Plus energy can’t be destroyed only transferred so again we really don’t know until it happens.
Wouldn't pH plummet if acids build up?
I had to dig up my sister's dead dog after her neighbor threatened to call the cops on her. It had been in the ground for about 3 or 4 days and smelled horrible! I'm fairly certain humans decompose the same way a dog does
man, this reminds me of the body farm documentary in national geographic.
It’s so scary thinking about death
we have to map human body to a computer , than mapping entire universe into a computer, what fools are we!!!, they are having maps and road ways between galaxies yet we have figured out what death is or why are we human or why we have bodies that feel, what can support us is we are stupid on surviving rather than why we have to survive ??
I did. Post-mort. care for years. If one dies with eyes I learned that rig. won't happen right away. I think that I remember 11. 12 hours after death. We gently closed eye lids by holding the eye lashes and slowly pulling down.
I still plan for my family to play "Drop it like it's hot" while lowering my casket down into the ground.
Do y'all think dead people feel when bug's eat them when buried?
How do teenagers and adults know right from wrong if our complex criminal laws are not taught at home nor in schools?
Bobby Harper They don't. Some of our natural behavior may be emergent (ie: not commiting suicide) but I'd say 99.9% of our social behavior depends on being directly or indirectly taught to us by other people
Who teaches what substances are illegal? Who teaches that you can be found guilty of a crime your friend committed?
Bobby Harper Cop shows? A google search?
It's very simple...........it's because of empathy
The law doesn't dictate what's right or wrong
First time smelling 'death' was on my first paramedic placement.. I felt sorry for the firefighters who were the first to open the door. Can't really describe the smell to friends besides using trash dump x1000000 lol
what does the body look like under ground after 4 months
corpse.
What I want to know is, are we harming the natural cycle of life by removing our bodies from decomposing naturally?
No
Since the human population is growing, it probably doesn't make a difference.
Think of all the fertilizer we are denying to nature. I'd rather be a tree than a pile of dust.
Decomposing artificially doesn't have an effect on the natural cycle. At most sending your ashes in space (after they decomposed artificially) have an arguably minimal impact on the natural cycle. No harm made, so yeah, your loaded question is invalid.
My grandpa lived and died in a different country, and after a year where he was buried there, his corpse was moved to his home country, my country, to be buried where he wanted.
I couldn't attend the first funural, but the smell surrounding the second funural was the most disgusting thing i have ever smelled.
What a way to say goodbye to grandpa....
I ate your grandpas corpse
Did you enjoy it?
Because anyone who can eat a corpse that smell like that, definitely deserves to enjoy it.
It would be interesting if we could model how much more different the world would be if everyone was buried when they died (just body in ground, not body in casket in ground). I wonder because of the amount of nutrients the world would get from 7 billion humans is effectively taken away because we place our bodies in a holding cell where the nutrients go to waste. So I wonder if we could do an animated prediction model of the earth if humans never used coffins/caskets/cremation, and just let our bodies decompose underground
Hello, please, put subtitles in your videos.
"Death" is a good band, look them up
I mean, it's gross. It's nasty, it's dirty, it's not fun. I experienced it, not a human but a cat.
I was inside my house watching TV, then my mother told me there was a dead cat outside, she told me to throw it. I have no choice so I get some plastic bags and go check out the crime scene. It was laying there, at first nothing really happened, untill I got close to it, oh boy does it smell great. The whole cats body was like, cut in half, eww. I started to pick it up, it was cold, and then the cats inside started to slide out, wtf I nearly puked, after that I immediately go washed my hands. It was unpleasant.
What if we kept the heart pumping the fluids even after death? Would our body know we were dead
All we are is just another part of nature.
A dog with some skin disease died in a field by my old house in the scorching month of July or August and that smell will stay with me forever 😑
You go with the Lord of lords and the king of kings Jesus Christ
You only go for yourself #NOTRUMP
Ryan Wright nope the king of kings will decide that
Just to add little to the gross theme:
In case you haven't been munched on by animals and got new holes in you, insects lay their eggs in places of the easiest acces into your body - basically into your bodily orifices. You know, mouth, anus, vagina and stuff. And if you poop yourself, there are insects (and snails) for that too.
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The human body is disgusting. This suit of flesh that we wear is fragile and is very sickening. It's biodegradable, it goes back to the materials it was made from (dirt). Good riddance!
there was a dead rat under a bed of somebody I knew . does that count ?
Great, thank you
5:56 Dude.. enough is enough..!!!
It's horrible very upsetting it was January 3rd 2021 I found my mum dead in bed that morning she must have died that night before because she was white and stiffness had set in it was horrible and so upsetting ill be haunted by that for the rest of my life and I lost my dad in September 2018 as well.
Why do we bury the bodies?
Mohammed AL-Buainain because decomposing bodies stink and carry disease.
And I eat em
I keep thinking those are spiders on your shirt haha
Ugh, now I can't stop thinking of them as spiders! Thanks for that 😩
I just subscribed to your channel and I don't know if you guys did this topic yet but could you guys make a video about why do we need blood
am i the only one who is eating while watching this with no problem ?
You never die, although your brain and organs do rot away the cells and bacteria still fight on, its like slime monsters dying just to split into more slime monsters. =)
You essentially become one with the universe. Capable of consciousness expansion into its sheer infinity due to the infinite nature of the universe itself. Our physical, flesh and blood minds are not capable of understanding that because of their sheer limited physicality. Spirituality has not been fully reached by science, and most likely it will never be, because of its infinitely complicated truths and secrets, that are nonetheless, a jewel of life itself. I believe death to truly be the most beautiful experience anyone can have, in a spiritual sense.
Polydynamix It's a common belief that consciousness dies at death, but you can't just turn back and ignore the *thousands* of anecdotes by people who have actually been clinically dead, sometimes up to 3 days, and came back to tell equally amazing stories. It IS true that most people get a sharp jolt of mental activity JUST right before death, but these NDE's have happened to people who didn't even have the slightest amount of mental activity due to their disease literally killing their whole brain. I don't think it's eloquent to dismiss something just because one has a very limited understanding of it. We are much more than our brain, we are energy and vibration as well.
I'm not arguing against the religion perception of people. It is true that even in the times when Greek mythology was prominent, people would often see Zeus and other gods that they grew up believing in. We are talking about people who have been dead for multiple hours if not *days*. There is no way possible for the brain to survive without oxygen for that long, so that discounts your first argument.
Furthermore, no one has been able to explain how people who die are able to know what's going in a place where there is no possible way for them to see or hear the situation, and there have been hundreds of cases like this one. There have been cases in which people, to prove that they actually went through something REAL and not imagined, point out certain objects in places where they otherwise would've never had access to or never have seen (ie. a very detailed description of a teddy bear lying on top of a hospital roof).
It's not because it's "comforting" (which it is) that I believe in it. It's because the anecdotal evidence is much stronger than what we can possibly know as we advance in science. And dismissing it to me seems like the worst and laziest decision scientists can make. Because science is there to discover the truth some way or another, after all.
Polydynamix It's not my fault you like to resort to silly examples that have nothing to do with the conversation to try and point out something wrong, knowing you have been beaten by every other thing I said. Not my fault you're a lazy thinker either. Your life, not mine.
Polydynamix No, you are just twisting the belief of little kids who know nothing of the world, and then comparing that to a phenomenon reported by thousands of people who have ACTUALLY been on the other side, and are able to point out physical things to prove their experience.
You're a real smug individual to think you know more than thousands of people who actually know what they went through.
Polydynamix Okay, what evidence do YOU have? Mr. Know-It all? You have NONE. And that's why you refuse to even talk about how these people have proven their experience by PHYSICAL means. It's not flimsy evidence, it's just people like you being domesticated by their own beliefs and closing their mind to anything else for sheer laziness and close-mindedness. You will never be able to argue against these people with a good support because you will never have it.
well people. I read some comments. I am quite sad, the fact that my fellow beings think that this life is all they have, then they will cease to exist... as if no accounting for actions will take place.. let any man who has a brain, ponder, search up death purpose of life and the islamic perspective ..just some food for thought
Good shit.
Hey does anyone know what would happen to a body if you can't afford a funeral? I mean you can't really leave a dead person in your back yard, would the state take it? And then what would they do with it? Just curious...
This video is disturbing to anybody who isn't a sociopath.
How about reincanation, its been scientifically proven that memory is hereditary and theres strong evidence of people who claim to have lived before
very very very old people smell diferendtly ,I and some other people describes it like smell of death,like someone came for them if you understand me :D
So on a macro level you are dead, but on a micro level you are still going? Sounds like we each have some Zombie potential ...
Movies have led us to believe you can hold your dead mates in your arms and cry...can you imagine!! the person you're holding starts pooping at that time! Moment Ruined!
Oh man, i'm really sorry for my imagination, it just got more worse...i wonder how many poor nurses have had to scrape dead people poop off the sheets man! Nasty!
I remember in a dream that I was in my house. I was walking down my hallway and saw blackness. I saw the room to my door closed where my younger brother is, with the light blocked from me. Then I looked to my laptop with the light blocked off and only blackness. Then I saw nothing but blackness. I don't remember smiling but an immediate frown came upon my face. There's no comfort. I then asked, "God can you at least give me my pillow for comfort." It was taken away. Then I heard a voice yelling something to the extent, "Why didn't you use me as your comfort?" There is only blackness there.
Don't go to that place. Follow Jesus. I barely have joy in anything anymore. I broke up with my gf recently and I didn't care. I only cared about what God thought of me. Nothing in this world matters. Everything is so empty without God. Use God as your comforter. I used to have problems going to sleep and God has comforted me through it. Jesus is King Messiah and the Son of God and God. He died and rose again for your sins.
I respect your Religion, but I'm not going to believe it, because I just don't see it as possible. But you can keep believing what you feel is right. I don't follow the bible, but I still believe you should treat others right. :)
-From An Atheist.
Lenny George I used to think of myself as a great person, I called myself a Christian, despite the fact that I used to preach against Jesus. If you can believe. Then I got baptized in the name of Jesus. For the repentance of sins and to receive the Spirit.
I now know that I never followed Jesus or His word. I thought that I was great and I wasn't. Just because you "know" that you should treat others right doesn't mean that you actually do, or actually follow it.
Love God and Jesus. "If you love me you'll follow my commands" and Love others. There are no greater commands than those.
What is this smell you talk about? i smelled a dead bird once, it was gagging, but that's not the same, is it?
***** no it's not.
You or any animal will smell of death before they die and before decomp and its is a smell that is very unique and pretty much impossible to describe.
Jake Evans
Fascinating
Jake Evans wow can you experienced it by smelling other people about to die? Wait... that sounds... creepy
no i work with animals alot at vets and shelters.
I'd rather smell a nasty fart than smell death. Death reeks worse than Hell.
I want to die in ice. Maybe years later I can come back😂😂 lol
Maybe
when frozen what happens? water expands. what are made mostly of? water so if you freeze yourself, years later youll be goo when unfrozen.
I really want help to get a mentor who can train me on how to become a coroner ive had this passion before I became a mental health nurse and also before I got diagnosed with fibromylagia and I got injured while on duty at work. pls if someone is there pls I need a sponsor.I really have passion about this and am very secretive person.
I'v been outside my meatbag once before, wasn't that bad...
Please please please please please please please do an episode about asteroids. Apparently an asteroid ia going to hit the earth in September?
See y'all in the after life🌚.