I always thought this was true but the other night I was watching Dr. G Medical Examiner and she said a person still had urine in their bladder and they were dead. So what's the truth in all of this?
2006-09-24 10:51:53 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Yes. Urine and fecal material are retained in their respective places by the contraction of sphincter muscles. To voluntarily eliminate such waste we must relax these muscles so that the appropriate orifice opens. In death, all muscles relax, so there can be leakage of waste products. However, that doesn't mean there will be no waste left in the intestine or bladder. Complete elimination requires contraction of other muscles, and these contractions cannot happen after death either, so it's just a matter of passive leakage. The quantity obviously depends on how much was there at the time of death.
2006-09-24 13:01:41 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If there are waste materials retained inside the body after death, they remain inside the body and some leakage are expected due to relaxation of the muscles over a certain period after the so called "rigor mortis" (stiffening of muscles) had passed. The pee and poop you will see are not eliminated the way they use to be. So in a real sense dead people do not pee and poop by themselves. It is some effects of pressure or gravity changes which will let the retained waste matter to come out, and not the "pooping" nor the "peeing" activities which living people usually do.
2006-09-25 01:27:48 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elimination does not occur in the real sense, but rather escapes as leakage. The body produces at least 50 cc's of urine per hour and more if you have been drinking. If you were to place a urinary catheter inside the bladder after death you would get a urine return even if there had been leakage because of the position of the body and because the person's musculature did not push/squeeze it out.
2006-09-25 02:34:51 · answer #3 · answered by Shaman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is not always true. I'm a nurse and I have cleaned up dead people allot. I work in a nursing home. And one time a women hadn't went to bathroom for a few days and she died and the poop was at her butt hole and the butt hole was about as big as a fifty cent piece.You could smell the poop and see the poop and that's the way she went to the funeral home. They was nothing we could do about it. But your muscle do relax when you die. That's why sometimes things do release like that. But not always!
2006-09-25 03:55:48 · answer #4 · answered by Betty L 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends. It is true that the body loses muscle control upon death, but it also depends on other factors. It may be that there isn't much left in the body. My mother didn't release anything, but she hadn't had much to eat or drink for a few days.
2006-09-24 11:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by wolfmusic 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is not a consistent occurrence. It does happen. And some men ejaculate at the time of death, so all the "muscle relaxation" answers here don't really explain it all.
2006-09-25 02:28:00 · answer #6 · answered by Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As yet it has not been my experience. Just as soon as I am dead I will let you know.
The body muscles relax once dead so I suppose all on its way just goes.
2006-09-25 00:07:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it happens it takes about 5 to 6 hours before the body to completely stop functioning after it dies..unless the body is completely destroyed
2006-09-24 11:00:35 · answer #8 · answered by nas88car300 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, and not only people.....
Many mammals that die a sudden death, but slow enough to be aware of it (like slaughter and preditor attack) do the same.
2006-09-24 14:29:47 · answer #9 · answered by Marianna 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your bodies looses its muscle control when you die so any fluids etc. do come out . TV is TV , reality is something different!
2006-09-24 10:55:18 · answer #10 · answered by kai_oshea 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋