why does a person gets heavy when he/she dies? any scientific reason>?

Question

why does a person gets heavy (weight) when he.she dies? what is the scientific reason for this? thanks

Answer 1

Because the dead human bodies absorb moisture.

Answer 2

I heard before that on the exact moment you die you lose 21grams, that even applies to someone in a coma and is simply unplugged, some people have speculated that that's your soul leaving. But that doesn't answer your question. If you stand straight up and tense your body and ask someone to pick you up from under the arms, and then completely relax and ask the same person to pick you up they will feel a substantial difference. The same principal applies when you weigh your leg tense and then relaxed. I know that's probably not the scientific explanation you are looking for but i thought you might like to think about it either way!

Answer 3

More prevalent is the other belief, expressed in the phrase "dead weight," that a body weighs more after death. But it only seems to weigh more. We carry our own bodies about so easily that we are unaware of what an exertion it really requires. And when, in some emergency that forces us to bear the additional weight of another body, we feel a gravitational pull of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, we are astonished and assume that the other body has somehow acquired additional heaviness. The weight of a corpse, or even of an amputated limb, is startling when felt for the first time. A husky man, flourishing his arms about, has no idea that they weigh as much as twenty-pound sacks of sugar; and a jitterbugging girl doesn't realize that she is throwing a couple of forty-pound legs around as if they were ping-pong balls.