Upon death, the body temperature begins to drop at about 2.5 degrees F an hour. The muscles relax, and the skin sags into new shapes. Blood settles in body parts closest to the ground, turning the top grayish white and darkening the underside, except where pressed to the ground. The resulting liver-colored stain, liver mortis, is most pronounced about 10 hours after death.
Within 6 hours, rigor mortis sets in: The eyelids stiffen, then the neck and jaw, and finally the remaining muscles. (The reason, still poorly understood, is probably a combination of chemical shifts and protein coagulation.) After roughly a day, the muscles slowly relax again in the same sequence that they stiffened.
Meanwhile, bacteria have eaten through the gut. The first sign is usually a greenish patch marbling blood vessels on the lower right belly. The putrefaction spreads across the stomach, down the thighs, over the chest. The skin changes to olive to eggplant to black. The bacteria produce gas that bulges the eyes, protrudes the tongue, and pushes blood-stained fluid from orifaces. That's why coffins are constructed with lids that can burp.
It is gas from the decompostion of the body.
2006-09-23 16:22:36
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answered by Juniper 3
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No, usually by the time the service occurs the person has been dead for a couple of days or at least 24 hours. Now if you don't know that the funeral home works on the body before it is exposed for viewing in the casket you should know that they have to in order to have them look the way they do. They apply make up and so on, there is no way a corpse does this your brother is trying to scare you or play a prank on you or is just misiformed.
On their death bed once they have stopped breathing, then this may occur. But not once they have been prepared by the undertakers.
2006-09-23 16:28:31
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answered by Neptune2bsure 6
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No. By the time a body is in it's coffin, all body fluids are out of the body. There is no air left in the body either. Tell your brother he's nuts.
2006-09-23 16:20:36
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answered by TJMiler 6
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no it's no because they don't don't get all their oxygen out..but they could take what looks like a breath, but what is really is is the body starting to decompose and let out gases from everwhere so they do fart and "breath" there is just so much gas in their body taht is needs to escape somehow..but it's NOT oxygen.
2006-09-23 16:20:13
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answered by lylitalianbeauty 3
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Big misconception. They don't really take thier "last breath" so to speak. However, muscles in the body do tense and relax after death. Actually, the body goes very limp before rigormortis sets in. Usually within 12 hours or so.
2016-03-27 05:48:21
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answered by Anonymous
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People can often let out some air when they die (and they also relieve their bladders and sometimes deficate.) But not by the time they are in their coffin.
2006-09-23 16:24:02
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answered by Serena 5
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Yes and no. NOt so long after death that they are in a coffin, but shortly after death, yes, they do take " a last breath" which is not life, but simply science.
2006-09-23 16:19:33
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answered by LuLuBelle 4
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no,there may be some air still inside of you though.
I saw an autopsy once and there was air in his stomach when the M.E. opened him
2006-09-23 16:20:50
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answered by Anonymous
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after you die there is an exhale,and then sometimes later more exhale--but no inhale-your brother is trying to scare you
2006-09-23 16:27:29
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answered by Anonymous
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*laughing* no, that cannot be possible...and you are wayyyy to gullable...you make it too easy for your brother! hahaha...
good luck!
2006-09-23 16:24:48
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answered by succubus_angel_666_777 3
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