What happens to the blood in our body when we die?

Answer 1

Depends on where your body is when you die. Gravity carries it to the part of the body facing down, thus the darker color underneath if you were to see the underside of a body (AKA lividity). If you are taken to a funeral home immediately, the blood is removed via the femoral vein and replaced with embalming fluid to preserve the body. If you're body isn't found for a while, and the blood isn't removed, well, bacteria grows in it, and nature takes its course, and, well, you've seen CSI--decomposition sets in.

Answer 2

Right after death when all body system functions had stopped,blood settles in body parts closest to the ground, turning the top grayish white and darkening the underside, except where pressed to the ground. After a day or so, bacterial activities inside take over spreading putrefaction all over including all along the pooled and clotted blood.

Answer 3

Unless there was a trauma that cut blood vessels, the blood will trickle down and pool in the lowest part of the body.

If you collect the blood within a couple of hours it is still good enough for transfusion.

Answer 4

Our body rots and our blood eventually rots too along with our body.

Say you leave a corprse in a park, eventually his remains will penetrate into the soil.

Answer 5

If your body is embalmed, a lot of the blood is forced out and replaced by embalming fluids. Otherwise, it deteriorates with the other organs of the body. :-)

Answer 6

Do you really want to know? The mortician pumps it out and replaces it with a fluid that preserves the body(so you don't stink at your funeral). If you are going to be cremated are buried right away nothing is done with it. It solidifies where it is at.

Answer 7

it coagulates and eventually dries up and disintegrates if it's not drained. i've seen it in cadavers when i was in college.