3.2—The Destruction of the Physical Body after Death Death was once defined as the cessation of the heartbeat and of breathing, but breathing and heartbeat can sometimes be restarted through CPR and life support devices such as pace makers. "Brain death" or "biological death" are used today to define a person as being dead. The empirical evidence of death is that breathing brain activity but resuscitation is still possible. This is clinical death. Brain death is when the person no longer has reflexes or any response to vigorous external stimuli. Brain death is the complete and irreversible loss of brain function necessary to sustain life.
Immediately after the heart stops beating, the body rapidly cools down until it reaches room temperature (“Algor Mortis”). Without the heart pumping, blood coagulates in the veins, arteries and capillaries, causing the entire body to stiffen. “Rigor mortis” sets in around two to six hours after death. A few days after death, bacteria begin to break down the body until finally one month after death the organs are liquified leaving nothing lasting but the skeleton.
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All that will be left are the white bones inside the casket buried six feet under the ground. As we contrast what happens to each component of the person, the physical and the spiritual, the journey of the soul if far more desirable as can be seen from the consensus of over 8 million NDE cases reported just at one research center after enough cases were reported to the nursing staff of hospitals to warrant an