How does a dead body get alive after death?
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WHAT JESUS SAID ABOUT DEATH\n\nJesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.\n\nLEARNING FROM THE RESURRECTION ACCOUNTS\n\nThe Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.\nThe account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle. \n\nThink about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?— And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?— Of course not!\n\nYet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.\n\nThe Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.\n\nClearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection.
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New radioactive carbon is incorporated into living things all the time (through respiration). When you die, no more radioactive carbon is incorporated, and the radioactive carbon that was in you when you died starts to decay. That's how scientists can tell how long ago you died. Only things that were previously living can be dated by carbon dating.
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i believe there is something after death\n\nbc then where does your mind go when you die?\n\ni beloive in spirits and heaven... bc there ARE such things are ghosts... \n\nthere are ghosts and obviously they come from dead people...\n\nso you either become a spirit or a ghost or go to heaven... which i guess is .. yeah i really dont know\n\ni guess you dont know for sure until you die and then... afterlife?\n\nyou just have to be happy and believe\n\nits scarey to think that your mind ... wont be like... around after you die its really scarey... like youll never be able to think...\n\nbut whatever.. enjoy life
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ANSWER 1: When a person drowns, water takes the place of air in the lungs. The body becomes heavier and sinks. It stays there until enough gas builds up inside the body from bacterial decomposition to make it buoyant and free it from the suction that silt and mud creates on the river bed, so that it surfaces. \n\nHow long this takes depends on the depth and temperature of the water, the amount of sunlight the corpse receives, and whether it is lying under a ledge or a bridge. \n\nWhether the body is lying on the north or south side of a waterway can also affect the time it takes to rise, because heating of the water varies on each bank. \n\nObviously, the body can take longer to rise if it is underneath something like a tree, or is caught by an underwater obstruction. I once studied a body that had risen to the surface with part of a brick wall tied to it by ropes around the chest. There were five bricks covered with mortar on each side of the body and still it floated. \n\nWhat's more, if a body is trapped by, say, its leg, the gases will keep forming until it is buoyant enough to detach itself from the trapped leg and rise up. \n\nBodies can also be washed into the side of a river and remain undiscovered, below an overhanging tree, for example. \n\nDebris piles up on top of the body and silt accumulates. If the body lies out of the Sun's rays, which cause much more rapid decomposition, it can remain there until a flood washes away the silt and debris. \n\nOf course, if the water is cold enough, the dead body may be held in "deep freeze" and it might never rise._New Scientist \n\n\nANSWER 2: Dead bodies undergo a series of changes, biological, chemical and physical, which eventually return the body's components to the food chain. \n\nThese changes and the speed of decomposition depend on where the body is. Decomposition in air is roughly twice as fast as it is underwater and about four times as fast as underground. \n\nA living person has almost the same density as water: when you breath in, you float, and when you breath out, you sink. \n\nThis is why dead bodies sink initially. \n\nThen the changes begin, and one of the most important is the bacterial decomposition of sugars and proteins in the tissues, mainly coliforms, Clostridium, Psedomonas and Proteus species. \n\nThese are anaerobic bacteria that normally live inside the large intestine, though they may come from an infected wound, such as gangrene. \n\nAs they feed on the decaying flesh, the bacteria excrete gases carbon dioxide and sulphur dioxide which inflate some body parts, mainly the face, abdomen and male genitals. \n\nBodies usually stay underwater for between one and two weeks, although this varies widely and some bodies never come up at all. One of the factors which affects this is the temperature of the water. \n\nContrary to common belief, there is no significant difference between the time it takes for male and female corpses to resurface. There is one notable difference though: while most corpses rise with spine uppermost, women and obese persons may rise face-up. This is caused by gas forming in breasts and large abdomens.
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interesting question.\n\nthe actual point when someone "passes away" i suppose could be a little unclear based on this statement. Usually it would just be defined as when your heart no longer beats, but i suppose your brain would be able to function for a short while afterwards, depending on how you die.\nMy guess is that it would be for about as long you can hold your breath, since a lack of blood is basically equivalent to a lack of oxygen. \n\nAfter a certain point though, brain function would be impossible. This is why when people are resuscitated, it is usually almost immediately after they die, if they wait too long it could result in some serious brain damage.
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After you die the brain live for about 7 minutes. \n\nI have heard that these 7 minutes hold the answer to the question, "what is heaven". I believe in this 7 minute unconscious stupor, you dream. And as everyone knows, time passes at a different rate when you dream. So in these 7 minutes you could be in a dream which is perceived as endless. And in this endless dream you re-live your life and dream of a heavenly place. The body can not perceive the difference between dream states and conscious states, and basically reacts the same to both. So in reality you really do go to heaven, and never wake up. But this is conditional of course on how you lived your life. If you die with a guilty conscious, your last dream will be a direct result of the way you lived. For instance you may have a nightmare after you eat late at night, just as you may go to hell in your last eternal dream if you let a miserable existence. I think religious figureheads caught onto this concept early on and have capitalized on it since.\n\nPlease e-mail me to discuss jodiamon@syr.edu or visit my blog which discusses this subject to death at http://krunkbox.blogspot.com/
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The soul never dies.  The Greek word translated into "souls" below actually stands for "persons."  The soul is not a proven body part.  It is spiritual belief.\n\nNow the answer:  With God time is irrelevant.  The dead body lies in the grave.  The soul is in limbo, waiting for Judgment Day.  Someday there will be a resurrection into new bodies, needing no raiment nor sustenance.  Souls will enter Heaven or  Hell according to judgment of deeds while the body was alive.
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what happens when a person dies?\n\nWhat exchanges old for new, offers no special deals or closeouts, and keeps us coming back for more?\n\n You were. You will be! \nKnow this while you are. \nReincarnation is the natural \nprocess of recycling human energy through \nbirth, growth, decay and death. \nEach rebirth is a link in one's eternal chain \nof latent impressions, thoughts, desires and actions. \nThe soul in its new body is given the opportunity \nto learn from the past, to live the present and to prepare for the future. Reincarnation: Why Believe?Once I have begun to base my sense of ‘who I am’ on perceiving myself as a soul rather than on perceiving only my temporary costume, the body, I deeply realize that, as a being of spiritual energy giving life to the body, I am immortal. I begin to understand that I change bodily costumes just as a snake sheds its skin, but I – the eternal soul – can never die.\n\nDeath and Rebirth\nAt the moment of physical death, the soul withdraws its energy from the organs of the body and vacates its seat in the middle of the forehead. It takes with it the impressions accumulated in that life and enters into the body of an unborn baby, while that new body is still being formed in its mother’s womb. This normally happens between the fourth and fifth month of pregnancy. A human soul only enters a human body. The type of body the soul enters and the conditions of birth are determined by the past actions of the soul in its previous life or lives, and the cumulative account of give and take that it has built up with other souls. Without proper understanding of this process, the leaving of one body and the taking of another is often an experience of great fear and anguish; but the details of the old life are soon obliterated by new experiences so that the soul is not overwhelmed and confused by past memories.\n\nReincarnation: What You Take With You\nBy the time the baby’s body and brain are developed, the soul has all but forgotten the past and become accustomed to its new conditions and to the parents of its new body. However, although the soul cannot usually remember details of its past life or lives, it carries with it—in the form of attitudes, tendencies and personality—the cumulative effect of all that it has experienced and learned. All that is genetically brought to the new life is the physical make-up of the body, the racial type, the colour of eyes, shape of nose and so on. And although the environment in which a child is raised – as well as the personalities of those around the child – definitely exert an influence on the child’s development, its tendencies and reactions to people and events are not biologically generated but are inherent in the soul from previous existences. Those predominant impressions recorded in the past life soon begin to manifest themselves and are expressed in the new surroundings.\n\nRelationship in Other Lifetimes\nHuman life is based on inter–relationships between souls, which in turn are based on the different impressions present in each. These impressions determine the course of life, the nature of the soul’s activities and its physical placement in a particular environment. Thus there is typically a link or an ‘account’ between two souls who have formed a relationship in one lifetime; that link will bring them together again in other lifetimes. This explains why many people have the sense of having met or known a person before, even though they are apparently meeting for the first time. Or they experience meeting someone with the feeling of either attraction or repulsion even though they don’t know them well enough in the current life to have developed those feelings. What is taking place is that the soul is recognizing the other soul – even though they have different bodies – from the last time they met.\n\nReincarnation: Process of Rebirth\nReincarnation is a process of rebirth. With each death comes a new birth an
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The body dies but the soul's immortal.  And on the last day every body will be raised back to life, judged and sent to either eternal Hell or eternal Heaven.  "Time ends and eternity begins."
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The real question is how do you know if you are dead.
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when we die, our brains die too.. so, we can no longer think or be aware of anything. if its true that we dont have spirits, then, when we die, we just stop existing. but if we have spirits, then, when our bodies die, the spirit will just move alone without the body.
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Scientist Claims Proof Of Afterlife\n\nCLEVELAND -- What happens after we die -- do we continue on or is this life the end?  Many of us hope there is an afterlife, and now some Arizona scientists say they have proof through their afterlife experiments.\n\nThere are many people who say they have died and come back to life. They claim to have experienced an afterlife, even if for only a short time.\n\nScientists at The University of Arizona have done extensive research, and say that they have the proof that when we die we continue to live beyond our physical bodies.\n\n"Almost anyone who sees the data says there's something real here," said one of the researchers.\n\nFor more information, click on the link below!
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The human Soul is the result of the Spirit entity dwells in the human corporeal body. The spirit being shall lives in the corporeal body only when there is continuance of the existence of chemical compound reactions in the body, such as availability of energy, radiation, blood flows, etc.\n\nNormally after a person is proclaim to be death, its internal organ or brain still carry some activity but at very minimal level, thus there is some sort of chemical compound activity such as heat dissipated from the body and temperature drops down, then some muscles become tense.
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I would guess No...\n\nThis is because once your dead, your tissues, muscles, nerves , and organs aren't functioning.\n\nThis could be true if it were a couple seconds after his death... because it would be closely remniscent to a story where someones head got chopped off, andd he could see his own body from the ground. And that is a true stroy since your nerves in your head continue to funmction for a couple of seconds more...\n\n~LG23~
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no one can give you the right answer for this because people beleave in different things. it all depends on religion and what you beleave. i think once you die your soul goes to heaven...but if you have unfinshed buisness then your ghost may hang around trying to do what it couldnt do while it was alive.
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are you into dead bodies?
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At death, the human body is basically the same temperature that it was the instant before (when it was alive).  The body will then acclimate, just like any inanimate object, itself to the surrounding temperature over a period of time.