what happens to the brain when we die?

Question

when the body dies what makes the brain move surtine part of the body even though we are dead?

Answer 1

Any residual response quickly stops and the brain's internal electrical impulses cease firing, just like an engine that is dying.

Answer 2

It simply rots away, just like the rest of your body
the brain doesn't make certain parts of the body move after you are dead

Answer 3

It's just nerve reflexes. It happens with animals and sometime insects.

In a funeral home, it is not unusual for a dead body to sit up or move. Just a hazard of that occupation (working for a mortician).
I'm told that the air that gets compressed thru the lungs makes a noise that sounds like "chicken". ohhhhhhhhhoooooo!

Answer 4

The brain stops functioning.

Answer 5

The brain ceases functioning. It takes no energy for muscles to contract. The energy is consumed making them relax. Over time, all the muscles contract. This is rigor mortis.

Answer 6

What interests me is we lose 15-21 grams of weight at the moment of death. A doctor in Colorado springs figured this out by weighing patients, he worked during the TB epidemic in late 1800s- early1900's somewhere. crazy!

Answer 7

for about 6 mins the brain keeps runnin ,

so enjoy

after that it runs outta oxygen and dies also

Answer 8

Left over elcectric impulses causes the jerks that we notice of dead bodies.

Answer 9

brain dies and it gets eaten by worms

Answer 10

the fibres of the brain dissolve because blood is no more reaching it .the fibres starts melting.