what makes your body discompose when your dead?

Answer 1

At the moment of death, cells die and the human body immediately begins to decompose. And actually, oxygen and air are what makes you body decompose, contrary to some of these answers. Your body is full of organisms and bacteria, and when you die, you immediately begin to decompose, because those organisms and bacteria multiply and run rampid. The only way to slow the process of decompostion is by embalming the deceased. Even embalming doesn't prevent decompostion, it just retards or slows it for an indefinite period of time.

Answer 2

The digestive juices in your stomach break down the barrier that keep them in the digestive tract and start breaking down the body.

Monks in many cultures have learned to starve themselves before death to naturally mumify their bodies. Dead bodies that remain preserved was a decent miracle in the old days...

Answer 3

No blood flow equals dead tissue.

Answer 4

The lack of movement. Movement of oxygen, blood, muscle, etc.

Answer 5

little nasty bugs like maggots and bacteria. same thing happens if you leave out a raw piece of meat outside of course and watch what happens to it.

Answer 6

There is no circulation that equals to no oxygen to your system. Everything is still so it decomposes..

Answer 7

cellls that eat dead things.... they are good when youre alive .

Answer 8

oxygen?

Answer 9

bugs eat it.