你死后会发生的6件怪事

你死后会发生的6件怪事

Nature isn't kind to the human body after death. Thankfully, the days of natural decomposition have been replaced by decidedly modern rituals of death. We can choose to delay the decomposition process by being embalmed, where our bodily fluids are replaced with preservatives. Or we can be cremated, where we are cooked at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit for several hours while we turn to ash.

自然对人死后的身体并不友善。幸运的是，自然腐烂的日子已经被现代的死亡仪式所取代。我们可以选择通过防腐来延缓分解过程，在防腐过程中，我们的体液被防腐剂取代。或者我们可以被火化，我们在高达2000华氏度的高温下煮几个小时，然后变成灰烬。

In the end, we all return to the Earth: it’s just a matter of how. (Photo: Lexie Flickinger [CC BY 2.0]/Flickr)

While our modern disposal rituals might not sound appealing, the process of nature composting us back into the Earth is even less so. Even earliest man knew how to put some distance between himself and his decomposing dead. In 2003, archaeologists found evidence of ancient humans who had buried their dead in northern Spain about 350,000 years ago.

虽然我们现代的垃圾处理仪式听起来不那么吸引人，但大自然将我们堆肥回地球的过程就更不那么吸引人了。即使是最早的人类也知道如何在自己和腐烂的尸体之间保持一定的距离。2003年，考古学家在西班牙北部发现了大约35万年前埋葬死者的远古人类的证据。

So what happens after we die? Here are several weird ways our bodies deconstruct after death.

那么我们死后会发生什么呢?以下是我们的身体在死后分解的几种奇怪方式。

Your cells burst open.

你的细胞爆裂了。

The process in which the human body decomposes starts just minutes after death. When the heart stops beating, we experience algor mortis, or the "death chill," when the temperature of the body falls about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit an hour until it reaches room temperature. Almost immediately, the blood becomes more acidic as carbon dioxide builds up. This causes cells to split open, emptying enzymes into the tissues, which start to digest themselves from within.

人体在死亡几分钟后就开始分解。当心脏停止跳动时，我们会经历“死亡寒流”，也就是身体的温度每小时下降1.5华氏度，直到达到室温。几乎立刻，随着二氧化碳的积累，血液变得更加酸性。这导致细胞分裂，将酶排入组织，组织开始从内部消化自己。

You turn white — and purple.

你变成了白色和紫色。

Gravity makes its mark on the human body in the first moments after death. While the rest of your body turns deathly pale, heavy red blood cells move to the parts of your body that are closest to the ground. This is because circulation has stopped. The results are purple splotches over your lower parts known as livor mortis. In fact, it is by studying the markings of livor mortis that the coroner can tell exactly what time you died.

在人死后的最初时刻，重力在人体上留下了印记。当你身体的其他部分变得惨白时，厚重的红细胞会移到离地面最近的部位。这是因为血液循环已经停止。结果就是你下半身的紫色斑点，被称为尸斑。事实上，验尸官可以通过研究尸体上的痕迹来准确判断你的死亡时间。

Calcium makes your muscles contract.

钙会使你的肌肉收缩。

We've all heard of rigor mortis, in which a dead body becomes stiff and hard to move. Rigor mortis generally sets in about three to four hours after death, peaks at 12 hours, and dissipates after 48 hours.

我们都听说过僵死，也就是尸体变得僵硬，难以移动。僵直通常发生在死亡后3 - 4小时，12小时达到高峰，48小时后消失。

Your organs will digest themselves.

你的器官会自行消化。

Putrefaction, or when our bodies start to look like extras in a zombie movie, follows rigor mortis. This phase is delayed by the embalming process, but eventually the body will succumb. Enzymes in the pancreas make the organ begin to digest itself.

腐烂，或者当我们的身体开始看起来像僵尸电影里的临时演员，伴随着僵硬的尸体。这个阶段被防腐过程推迟，但最终身体会屈服。胰腺中的酶使器官开始自我消化。

You may be covered in a wax.

你可能被蜡覆盖。

After putrefaction, decay moves quickly to turn the body into a skeleton. However, some bodies take an interesting turn on the way. If a body comes into contact with cold soil or water, it may develop adipocere, a fatty, waxy material formed from the bacteria breaking down tissue.

腐烂之后，腐烂会迅速将身体变成骨骼。然而，有些身体在途中发生了有趣的转变。如果一个身体接触到寒冷的土壤或水，它可能会产生脂肪，一种脂肪，蜡质物质形成的细菌分解组织。

You will probably move

你可能会移动

Sounds strange, but it's true. A researcher in Australia who took it upon herself to study corpses for 17 months found that our bodies don't just twitch — they move quite a lot.

听起来很奇怪，但这是真的。澳大利亚一位研究尸体长达17个月的研究人员发现，我们的身体不仅会抽搐，还会剧烈运动。