So I've been a lifeguard for 20 years, we tend to not want kids to eat before swimming so they dont puke. .... and I just got to the point where he mentions nausea. Please dont puke in the pool kids
@@woodfur00 I guess technically you need stuff in your stomach to puke. Same way you need blood in your veins to bleed, getting a cut doesn't matter. (I'm being ridiculous and jokey)
@@terriblej6107 Working at a pool doesn't give you a sample of kids who eat and don't swim, because everyone's there to swim. As far as you know those kids would have puked anyway, the difference being if they didn't swim it wouldn't be your problem.
I broke my hip recently, the surgeon said that those veins in the leg bones made this surgery difficult. Lucky for me he said my surgery went super smooth.
Another one that should be added to the list: if you die from getting hit by a truck, you get reborn to another world, commonly known as getting Isekai-ed
Damn, I was hoping that this video would touch on the fact/myth(?) that your head remains alive for several minutes after decapitation. When executed on the guillotine, allegedly, someone would take the head out of the basket and turn it to face the corpse, presumably to "prove" to the deceased that they were, in fact, dead. Or to further torture the victim. I don't know, but I was hoping to get that busted or proved when I saw the video title.
I'm donating my body to science. I think it's such a waste to destroy or bury our bodies when there is still so much to learn from them. Even after death I can continue to benefit my species. My body will be put to better use in the hands of academics and scientists than in the ground or some vase. I honestly don't understand why people even care about stuff like being buried. I am already dead. My body was nothing more than a vessel. I am the neural network in the brain, my body is just my way of interacting with and sensing the physical world. I greatly appreciate the life my body allowed me to live, but I recognize that it's just a tool. One that is very useful, even if I have already departed from it.
Look up -Human Institute of Anatomy- Institute of Human Anatomy. They use real human cadavers to teach people about the body. If no one donated their bodies either this wouldn't happen or we would have to resort to grave robbing. Science needs all the help it can get, I encourage everyone to seriously consider the idea of donating their body.
ikr I was so excited they talked about alkaline hydrolysis! I learned about it on her channel and ever since I knew that was what I wanted when I die (since I don't want my loved ones to have the bear the cost of a natural burial). My absolute top choice would be having my body buried to make a permanent preserve (since they can't build over a gravesite), but I know that is less likely.
She’d probably be a bit annoyed that they proposed water cremation as a current option. Or that they assumed viewers would not die before it’s an option given that death can happen at any time.
@@Jade-g6p Although I agree she wouldn't be too thrilled to hear how they presented it as a current option I feel like she'd appreciate the death positivity and overall information given. It's a foot in the door and she's always happy to see people start their journey to death positivity.
Well, there "are" many stories of people being resurrected from death ☠, and telling us what happened with them. It's just that this atheistic society refuses to believe any of it. So by definition they can't tell us.
@@dumbledor22 the issue with those stories is that we don't really have any reason to believe that what happens with "resurrected" people is actually what happens when we really die. It also doesn't help that there's a wild variation even among those accounts
@@jennifersmith8743 why indeed shouldn't we believe them? Can you explain? And about the variation in accounts, I can easily explain that. In my religion it actually works perfectly, because we believe that God judges each person individually, and whatever happens to a person after death, and the exact order of it, is decided by him on a case by case basis, and there are probably a million and one possibilities. I mean in this world too, it's very unlikely that any two people will have the same experiences in life, definitely never "exactly" the same. Nevertheless, i heard that there actually "are" many common features people report happened with them while they were dead, that are consistent among many such stories, even of people with different backgrounds and beliefs. So i guess that's quiet strong proof too for the accuracy of such stories.
@@dumbledor22 "why indeed shouldn't we believe them? Can you explain?" , one sentence later, "In my religion it actually works perfectly, because we believe...." You answered your own question. Religion creates biases. The human brain isn't even a completely unified entity. We have a conscious and a subconscious. The two interact but are not the same thing. Everything you think and do is dictated by your subconscious, and your conscious mind rationalizes these decisions. As a result free will does exist as most think it does and nothing can truly be objective, as what we perceive as reality is itself subjective. We can't believe what someone says when they are resurrected because we have no idea if what they sensed was "real". What if these are not religious encounters of an afterlife, but instead vivid hallucinations of a dying brain? That is far more likely given our current understanding of biology. If you live your whole life with an expectation of something, your brain has all the power to show it to you. Whether it's real or not. When you are in extreme pain, like half your body torn off pain, you don't even feel it anymore. The signals are still coming, the pain hasn't gone away, but the brain just doesn't process it anymore. Your reality is only what your subconscious tells you it is. When you are dreaming you are completely unaware of the fact that it's not real (most of the time). In the moment, your dream is your reality. You have no idea there is a whole 'nother reality that you exist in. Until you wake up in that other reality. That's why lucid dreaming is such a profound experience to those who are able to do it. We can create full, life-like, simulations in our brains. No technology needed. With the given information, who can one be so trusting of what someone says and that alone?
Ya I want to be buried raw. Unfortunately some local govs try to stop that. Don’t want “Bio hazard” rotting human around, like man I’ll be in the ground.
@@RickyKirkman cremated probably as I like the idea of drifting off in to space Or better yet, thrown into the air to be breathed in by people all over the world…
That is the aquamation or water cremation one 😁 but you could also do a natural burial and then have a tree planted on top of you instead of a tombstone. If you want eco friendly, natural burial is the best option. Also in terms of finances I believe it is the cheapest option, because its so simple. And the thing about aquamation it's not available everywhere yet I believe. You can find more info on Ask a Mortician, she talks about all the options there are and much more 😁
My mother died at home with dad holding her hand and her eyes were open. A cat will often go and hide in his favourite most comfortable spot to be sick or die.
I'll add my voice to this: check out Ask A Mortician! If you want more interesting, educational, and frank conversations about death and all the weird and wonderful traditions around it, Caitlin has the content for you. Her posting schedule is a little erratic rn but she's literally an independent funeral home director. In L.A. In a pandemic. So she's busy. But all the more reason to show her some love!
Depending on where you live, your options for natural burial may be limited by local laws, zoning, and cemetery offerings. If you want a natural burial, you'll want to arrange the details yourself. Don't make your loved ones make decisions while grieving.
Deathling fellow here 🙋♀️ thanks for talking about eco-friendly ways to dispose our bodies! Caitlin from the Ask a Mortician channel gives further information about this and other ways to go besides the typical ones (even the one where you are left in the mountains to be eaten by eagles lol)
Getting all the elements in: Earth (standard burial), Fire (cremation), Water (alkaline hydrolysis), and Air (the "left in the mountains to be eaten by eagles" one, whatever it's actually called -- sky burial? is that it?)
In many countries you have to request a burial at sea. In many cases a burial at sea is only reserved for individuals with a strong connection to the sea, like long serving sailors and fishermen. There are also regulations on where you are and are not allowed to perform a burial at sea. Depending on where you live there are different laws on the subject.
@@jerrystott7780 ahoy bubblehead! Always a pleasure running into a fellow Salty Dog. Although the closest I ever got to a sub was at NTC Great Lakes. My barracks was named after the Parche. Spent my time as a Roof Rat on carriers.
Thank you for bringing up natural burial. It has taken me about 5 years to talk about what I want done with my body after I pass with my parents and I've slowly been getting them to think about it. Also I have been talking about being positive about death because it happens to every living thing.
In case you don't know yet, Caitlin is a funeral director who is all about death positivity. And she has videos on how to address such things. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4DZumsrUejI.html Hope this helps ♥️
I always thought the advice was, "Don't swim after eating a BIG meal." Having a full stomach and then exercising vigorously can lead to some unfortunate events. Do so while swimming can be tragic.
@@greenredblue It's good to start a life insurance policy when you are in your early 20's so that you can cover whatever burial method you want. You can talk to a life insurance agent and get the scoop. You can even get a term life insurance policy to do this. I was able to "chip off" a "Piece of the Rock" my parents had (Prudential) and grow my own life insurance policy. It now has equity and value I can draw on as well as a burial value.
When I was little I was told to wait 3 hours after eating before swimming or else my digestion would stop, the food in my stomach would start to putrefy and I'd die. I was also told that a medieval king died this way.
Well, in most families it was about repeated assurances of cramps and a diffuse chance of drowning by somehow sudden loss of control of your body. Other families were more skeptic and just recommended 30 mins of "digestion time", I was so jealous!
to be fair, in the middle ages people would just die and medical knowledge was so poor that people just had to make an assumption about why. that's why we have some pretty bizarre causes of death in records from centuries past.
Thank you for featuring alkaline hydrolysis. It's available in California but not anywhere else. I want to see it in my state of Kentucky as an option for me when it comes time to dispose of my remains. It speeds up decomposition from years to hours and can be released into waterways. Anything metal is recoverable from it, so if someone wants, say, an artificial knee joint or hip joint, they can get it easily. If you want it in your state, talk to your state Senators and Representatives.
Folks should check out Cremation Association's website - AH is actually accepted/available in many US states (Canada, too) - it's just whether or not there's a provider to actually do it.
Thank you for mentioning the other ways of what to do with the dead. It's helpful, as a future Death Doula, to be able to guide others in making decisions about what they want done for their own bodies. Having a multitude of options to offer is fantastic!
I always figured the "wait 30 monster to swim" thing was an excuse adults made to take a breather while the kids wanted to immediately go do something active
Before I die, I will sign up to donate my brain to science because I suffer from epileptic seizures. And If I can donate the rest of my body to science, I will be glad to do so. If not, I want family to just put my body where there is a lot of ants so they can break me down to bits so they can feed their colony.
There's an order of nuns who have donated their brains to science. Over the decades they have done this we have learned a great deal about dementia. These nuns have been doing the saving work of Matthew Chapter 25. In death when there is no more work they can do, they give their brains to science. I am not a Christian and was raised secular with a Christian background. After suffering abuse from my community for this I undertook to study their faith. Matthew 25 is the harshest section of the New Testament, and I cannot say I disagree with it, even though I fail to meet its standards. Not for my lack of faith, but my lack of works. I can assure you that according to Matt. 25 people who don't wear masks when there is plague in the land are judged harshly. The vaccinated who discourage vaccination will be judged harsher still.
From what I have learned from Caitlin Doughty, alkaline hydrolysis and natural conservation burial seem to be the ways to go! Nice to see another source talk a bit about these really important things!
I want a natural burial, I don't even want a coffin of anything like that, just chuck me into a hole once my organs/tissue/skin and anything that's useful has been harvested. The only special request that I have is for a tree (or a plant of some kind) to be planted over me because I like the idea of helping to sustain the natural world once I'm gone.
100% agree. Imagine a garden of fruit trees where you can go everytime you want to visit the burial of your loved ones. And make an apple or a cherry pie of the fruits that grow out of them. What a better way to make your children remember theirs ancesters. ;-)
Problem is that such burials are actually illegal in many countries. The effluence that drains from a human body after death actually can have a negative impact on ecosystems. The process of liquefaction actually releases several harmful chemicals, due to anaerobic decay, which actually kill vegetation. If you wanted to go the actual "green" route you'd need to find someone willing to compost your body through aerobic means, and then scatter the "you mulch".
@@SkunkApe407 Becky Chambers (scifi author) uses human composting as a central part of one of her stories, explaining how people actually managed to live in space. Highly recommend, if you like scifi. (That's in the third book of the Wayfarers saga, Record of a Spaceborn Few, and you can read it alone... but I really recommend the entire series.)
_Star Trek: Enterprise_ missed #4 in the episode "Shuttlepod One" where Commander Tucker told Lt. Reed that nails and hair grow after death according to his honors biology course. Even in the 23rd century, humans still believed in stuff that isn't true...
That was used in a detective drama. Forget what it was called but the private detective was played by Jason Isaacs, he was trying to rescue a woman doctor who had been kidnapped, only when he found her in a remote building she had killed both her kidnappers. One by stabbing through an eye with a pen and the other by slashing the inside of his thigh, severing the femoral artery. Jason Isaacs character then helped dispose of the bodies by burning down the building before taking her home.
I like the idea of a natural burial with a tree saplings of my loved ones choice planted above me. So it can grow off my nutrients and when people come to visit me, they can watch my energy become the tree and that just seems a much nicer thing for them. And really it’s all about those who are left.
So what you're saying is I can be stuffed raw under a tree after I die and there's nothing anybody can do about it. Make mine a peach tree and let people enjoy its fruit so that they'll still be eating my 🍑 long after I'm gone.
Nice pun. Well done. But(t) still a great idea. Imagine a garden of fruit trees where you can go everytime you want to visit the burial of your loved ones. And make an apple or a cherry pie of the fruits that grow out of them. What a better way to make your children remember theirs ancesters. :-)
You're going to need to be turned to mulch first. The gasses and effluent chemicals released from anaerobic decomposition are actually toxic to trees and other plants.
@@Catlily5 even if you aren't embalmed, the chemicals released from your decaying body would still be harmful to the tree. You have to be turned into compost or mulch first to prevent that from happening.
my understanding of cremation and its ecofriendliness is that it is *more* ecofriendly than traditional burial, but not as ecofriendly as water cremation, natural burial or Tibetan sky burial. Caitlin Doughty at Order of the Good Death talks about relative ecofriendliness on the episode where she talks about alkaline hydrolysis to explain where that lines up with other forms of burial. I think it was traditional burial is to Hummer what cremation is to Prius what alkaline hydrolysis is to Tesla what natural burial is to bicycle.
When I found my brother dead on his bed his eyes were half open, according to science they might have opened after death, I guess so. Then he probably died in his sleep, which at least is somewhat comforting. You where all I had that meant something my dear brother, I have half my life to go through without your strength and warmth and friendship. I'm crushed, lost and miss you like crazy Per.
This was an interesting video, but I can't help but notice that Hank still looks like that at 41 years old. Clearly he doesn't have to worry about death, not sure why he hosted this one lol
reminds me of the 18th century (iirc) outlaw whose mummified remains ended up in a haunted house at a fair. his body had been sold so many times, the fact that it was real was forgotten somewhere along the way. the truth was only discovered by accident when the leg (or arm idr) was accidentally broken and you could see the bone inside.
Thank you so much for the Natural Burial shout out. I plan to go that way, and I've told all my people that if they die without a will, that's how I'm planting them, too. NO EMBALMING!
My grandparents always told me don't swim after eating but I think it was just cause they didn't want us swimming without supervision and they weren't done eating yet
When I was a kid I was told not to swim right after eating because I would get cramps, but my mom meant like stomach cramps not that I could drown from cramps in my legs/arms X’D
for a "greener" death.... i was lead to believe that a coffin made of Mycelium its the better option because it helps the ground to absorb your remains
We have a pretty good idea what happens after death. Search for "the body farm". But I don't think that's what you mean. There is no sentient "soul" or "spirit" independent of the brain. That's _misconception number 0._
Being partially transformed into a fertilizer, giving your body to science, and other such things... there are a lot of ways that a dead body can be used after death, even if it sounds weird and just extremely "wrong" to "use" a dead body to help make things better in some ways
@@atemoc well, you're free to do whatever you want with your dead body, but it does sound very wrong when you talk this way about other people dead bodies
@@outerfun5310 It's just about how bodies can be used in general. I think it would be inappropriate to bring it up to a grieving person/family. But if we aren't going to talk about what could be done at all, then how are we supposed to decide what we should do? Can't be making topics taboo or we'll stagnate.
Ny favourite burial tradition is the sky burial: People will cut your flesh from the bones to feed it to the birds of the area. It's kinda grim, but also kinda poetic that someone cuts you up and you end up as birdfeed, but then you literally become part of nature and the skies above your home.
@@MrCmon113 Well, yeah, all animals will eat "garbage", some people might say that others eat garbage, but that doesn't devalue you as a person when eaten by an animal.
I have made my end-of-life desires clear to my husband. I was amazed when I discovered that embalming is not a requirement. From the moment I learned about *entropy* I wanted to avoid it at all costs. The idea of taking all of the molecules that are *me* and incinerating them means that entropy wins. I take comfort in thinking of the organisms that will consume my flesh going on, living, reproducing, making use of that which is *me* and dispersing my self throughout (what's left of) our biome so that I might be a positive force for life, even after death.
If it makes you feel any better, you'll always be part of the universe in some form. The matter than you're made of has cycled through our universe since the universe began, and it will continue to convert from one form to another forever. Isn't that neat? :)
But no matter what you do your remains *will* go back to nature one way or the other. We're all stuck on this planet just like everything long dead before us. I guess if they put you in a plastic bag, inside a mountain with nuclear waste then your remains would be there for quite a while. Still after a few million years, assuming the planet is still around, your remains would find a way back into the soil. It's not like we're magically going to vanish into a black hole.
@@golddragonette7795 Sure, but Sasheena said "The idea of taking all of the molecules that are me and incinerating them means that entropy wins." There's no incineration involved with embalming.
i was hoping to see that a dead body isnt any more infectious after death and can actually be less infectious. the forms of transmission many germs use are symptoms of sneezing, coughing, bleeding, waste products, and etc. but dead bodies dont do any of those anymore making them actually safe compared to a healthy living person. dead bodies from healthy people arent automatically more dangerous because they are dead. its ok to be in the same room as your passed relative or friend. you don't need to immediately have them hauled away and buried before you can process it. of course, if they died of a highly infectious disease then someone needs to be called immediately so nothing is transmitted. but old age, accidents, or health issues, they arent any more dangerous than before.
They actually have many waste products decomposing inside: in such conditions the good bacteria tend to become evil bacteria and what-not, also they poop by mere relaxation of sphincters, so yeah, offer your dead to the vultures rather ASAP.
@@LuisAldamiz good bacteria doesn’t just “go bad” If there are any harmful pathogens in the body those either go dormant or die off now that there’s no healthy living cells to reproduce in. The only way to get infected by those is by the same contact you would have had with the living person. There are bacteria that break down the body past decay, but your body needs to rot and let the cells start to die first. Those aren’t harmful to people, it’s what would cause the smell and deathly appearance but that would be a few days into decay. As for shitting yourself when you die, it doesn’t always happen, and again, it’s only as harmful as the sickness they died of. If they weren’t sick in any way then it’s just a messed pair of pants. If you’ve ever held a dead pet, or sat in the same room as a dying relative, it’s not like you need to dispose of the body in exactly 5 minutes or it will get up and kill you. Some cultures, even America pre civil war, promoted a healthy relationship with sitting with the dead for a week as you could process it. They would wash the dead’s bodies and make them presentable for everyone as an open funeral of sorts. Many cultures still do this today. The main reason this changed was because preservation and embalming became very popular and a very lucrative business during the civil war and even more so afterwards when all the civil war embalmers lost their jobs and had to tell the public that embalming is necessary or it could be dangerous. They made a lot of money, and still do, seeing that it’s around today. I for one hope I’m just put in the earth raw under a large tree. Won’t catch me contributing to a scam to steal the earnestness in death from me.
@@LuisAldamiz I love the use of "tend to" as if you have some kind of experience with this and didn't just pull it out of your ass lol. Bacteria doesn't "turn evil," that's nonsensical. If a bacteria wasn't infectious and dangerous before death (which it wasn't when you're talking about gut bacteria), it's not going to magically mutate just because somebody died.
@@jasper3706 - Well, I'm not saying just because, bacteria operate differently in different environments, usually harmless or even beneficial bacteria can (and do) turn infectious and harmful in toxic environments like cesspools or decomposing bodies.
If you are going for what's best for nature, dropping the body in the ocean is probably the one, since that way most of the carbon in the body gets doesn't get to the atmosphere. Although I guess we would have to factor in the energy cost of getting the body there in the first place
The belief I find the weirdest about death is the existence of a soul. Like an invisible, undetectable tiny ghost living in our body that apparently is useless but makes our consciousness go on after we die. Not sure where the belief comes from. It's weird.
People imagine that their loved dead can't be fully, well, dead, that they are just "gone", hopefully to a better place. A lot of business have grown around that absurd but emotionally understandable idea since the time of the pyramids.
You can be sick if you eat before swimming. I know as it happened to me and another lad in swimming club. You’ve never seen so many baked beans in a swimming pool 😂
They have this really cool thing that I've always told my friends and family I want to happen to me if I die. They take your cremated remains and make them into a special kind of cement block. The block gets dropped in a coral reef and because of all of the nutrients in the cremated remains it will help the reefs flourish and your body will eventually become part of the reef. I think that's pretty awesome!
@@movingforwardLDTH Cremains consist of minerals like calcium, phosphorus, and Lots of salt. However, none of that really matters in regards to this, because they are mixing the cremains into Concrete and casting a large mold designed to promote coral growth and sea life habitat. It seems some of the more expensive options even have tech built on like gps etc. (upcharges anyone?)
It’s the first time I heard that in the west, a burial involves concrete vaults. I thought all burials were supposed to be natural. Before cremation went popular, most were buried this way in my country, though often with a wooden casket.
In many places the cheapest option is a concrete niche, then comes the well-off option which is a family tomb made of concrete and probably decorated with marble slabs and such and where several niches are closed with bricks and mortar upon each burial (an ossuary typically exists in the deep end so a tomb with 4-6 niches can last like forever). Then of course it's the rich option: the mausoleum.
That’s normally a cemetery policy not a law thing. It is interesting tho. Never really thought about it and I live in the US. I don’t know if many people even know caskets are usually encased in another vault but from what I’m reading it’s so the earth on top doesn’t just crush the casket
@@zg3342 So the earth on top doesn't go all .. bumpy. Casket vaults are what allow modern US cemeteries to look so golf course pristine. Go have a look at an older cemetery, and there will be rises and dips as you look across a row of graves. The vaults in the modern cemetery keep that from happening. It's just for looks.
They have to do it to stop the embalming fluids from leaking into the groundwater. I don't think you need it if you have a natural burial because the body will just naturally rot into the ground
I was so happy about the other, more eco-friendly, options on how to go added at the end. I already knew these methods thanks to the channel Ask a Mortician - and I'm happy to see this information spread even further.
Yeah, pretty disappointing. But, fun fact, you only survive 30 secons after being guillotined, I learned last week on another educative channel. Apparently some Frienc executor documented that in 1903 by repeatedly calling a victim by his name, to which the severed head reacted several times opening its eyes with a meaningful expression... until it didn't (eyes became vitreous and death was confirmed).
@@LuisAldamiz Yes, it's been documented a few times actually. Hopefully he got to enjoy brain death then with the rush of the brain chemicals, and not visions of hell that was probably planted in him all his life. Sucks to be killed, then hallucinate being tortured in hell.
Didn't want to actively antagonize 75% of the viewership. Or more as you go older in the demographics. Hank has barely, /barely/ hinted publicly that he might not be religious because he doesn't want the backlash, and to be fair, everyone's position isn't everyone's fight. But for this video, it's definitely the elephant in the room.
There's really no "safe" place to be shot _anywhere_ on the human body, maybe aside from very small spots on the extremities like hands or feet. The body is full of large blood vessels that, if severed by a bullet, could cause the victim to bleed out before help can arrive. This is why any firearms instructor will tell you that you *_do not_* fire a gun at someone unless you _intend to kill them._
I honestly expected something more daring, like "a common misconception about death is that our coscience keeps living after it", but the video was cool nonetheless.
I know that the comment count, view count, and actual comments on a video can be out of sync, but this is the first time I’ve seen both the view count and the comment count be zero, yet there is already a comment (from Airsickspace92, saying “Death is hell of an interesting topic”)
When my Dad was a kid, he was at a funeral. It was in the Summer and in Virginia that means hot and humid. Well, the guest of honor hadn't been been embalmed and the few days had gone by. At funeral the guest of honor partially set up and groaned...it freaked all the young people out.
@@LuisAldamiz Decomposition, after a few minutes the service went on. They did set up a few fans for a few minutes and kept them going during the remainder of the service. I understood from my Dad and Grandfather they sped up the service. This was in the late 1930s. The part of the mountainous Virginia was very very poor still due to the Depression.
@@kirkmorrison6131 - OK, I understand, I didn't realize it was so long ago. BTW, not so long ago (but still long ago in the 80s) I did visit your part of Virginia as exchange student, Amherst Co. to be precise. It was then when I got fluent in English. Take it easy, man.
@@LuisAldamiz I don't advertise it but I am 65. My Dad if he hadn't passed away in 2015 would be 90. I was born in Wythe Co. Virginia. It is beautiful in that area. Then it is in all of the mountains. I have spent a good bit of time in the area you were in the 1980s. I am sorry it took so long to reply but my back was out and slept after the reply.
@@kirkmorrison6131 - Are you kidding me with "sorry it took so long to reply"? The whole conversation began just a few hours ago! We both are old enough (I'm 53 tomorrow, don't gratz, pls) to remember pre-Internet times when any such chat via snail mail (intercontinental phone calls were too expensive to be used often) would take weeks. It was so inconvenient that any such casual chat like the one we're having would almost certainly never happen among us or equivalent. Anyhow, I don't recall being in Whyte Co. It's at least one level deeper into "Apalachia" than Amherst, at least judging on the map, but I've certainly enjoyed your colorful mountains in general terms anyhow, including a crazy canoe shipwreck upstream the James river. You're probably thinking: "kid, where you lived was almost half-way towards Capitol City", and I guess you'd have a point, but it's the ruralest Appalachian experience I ever had so... Not the ruralest experience ever however, I strongly remember one summer when I was maybe seven y.o. and we vacationed in a Spanish village called Soncillo and there were wooden carts pulled by oxen and what-not. Everybody went through measles but me and we had an invasion of migrating bees briefly settling just outside our place on a tree in the village plaza and had to take cover at home while someone fixed the mess with smoke or something. Good days! Well, enjoy, Kirk. Weird story that one of that dead man "coming to life" out of rotting, it may explain some stories about the "undead", at least where they come from or find some support. That must have been quite spooky! Cheers.
My little sister almost died from drowning, falling in the pool. Because she fell in before my family was ready to let people back in the pool after eating, we have no idea how long she was down there. We didn't even realize she was gone for a while, because a lot of my family was there and it was just tough keeping track of everybody. She very narrowly lived
"Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down' ".
Hello fellow deathlings! May I just say HELL YEA ALKALINE HYDROLYSIS! I told my friend about it the other day, and she actually thought it was rad. I hope there can be a future Ask a Mortician and Sci Show colab!
i really really wanted o know he specifis abou this one, and i hoped it was here. ive heard differen things,. I care about htis one because i want to go wih dignity for my hypothetical kids. people say i doesnt matter beause you are dead, bu it does matter! becaause you are not yet dead in the minds of he people that keep living after you. I don have much hope though. my grandma who was as a mother o me smelled like piss when she died. and yes because i remember this I care abou it.
Calling Doughty -- Paging Caitlin Doughty! If you're going to go over death myths, get Caitlin to join you -- she's already covered all these (except for the swimming thing) in greater detail and a LOT more humor. DARK humor. Just like I like my chocolate.
7:13 My *old* volvo has tank of 70 Liters. So 5 liters more can hardly be called "two tanks for an average sedan"; what the hell did you base this on? -- Some new cars can even carry 80 liters! Did you just pull figures out of your arse or what? - No, for real, wtf did you base this on? (This is the first time I thumbs down a SciShow!)
That's my plan. A wooden coffin, no embalming, and trees planted on top. I figure I've taken enough from nature - it only seems fair to give something back. :)
800 degrees? Hmm. I've got a pretty big solar parabolic that can hit that easy. Maybe I should open an eco-crematorium. As for me, I don't care, which drives my wife crazy. I told her if she can find a German necrophiliac club that will pay a few bucks for me on eBay she should go for it.
Death is not a woman. He likes cats and his white horse is called Binky. :-) Also....I am 100% for natural burial. Imagine a garden of fruit trees where you can go everytime you want to visit the burial of your loved ones. And make an apple or a cherry pie of the fruits that grow out of them. What a better way to make your children remember theirs ancesters
Had a arterial bleed in one thigh and another entry in another, I can 100% attest to everything you said. I had a few transfusions in the ambulance, and got very lethargic. Had things taken longer, who knows what could have happened to me! Thankful. Wasn't a proud moment, but what you said was true nonetheless. I had to get over 1.5L or something. I'm not a very large person volume wise. I remember the warmth on my meet and pools in my shoes.
I don't know where did you take those "10 minutes" thing from, but that's just not true. You can even lose a finger for more than 10 minutes and have it reattached. The cells don't just all die after 10 minutes like that. Skin, cartilage, hair folicules and many other body parts stay more than 10 minutes without perfusion in ambient temperature when we transplant them.
