A person has their evening meal and then goes to bed before their meal is digested, does digestion cease with their death? or does peristalsis in their intestines continue, and the various chemical reactions continue? if so at what stage does this activity cease?

peri whatsit would stop. the food would still be dissolved in the stomach acids. but i’m not a person who is au fait in this particular subject so my observations may be erroneous.

>A person has their evening meal and then goes to bed before their meal is digested, does digestion cease with their death? or does peristalsis in their intestines continue, and the various chemical reactions continue? if so at what stage does this activity cease?

fast before you nod off, no need to trouble yourself.

transition said:

>A person has their evening meal and then goes to bed before their meal is digested, does digestion cease with their death? or does peristalsis in their intestines continue, and the various chemical reactions continue? if so at what stage does this activity cease?

fast before you nod off, no need to trouble yourself.

Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.

My understanding is that digestion does continue and that the stomach actually begins to digest itself. This is sometimes how time of death can be established during autopsy.

Any muscle movement/tone would stop, which includes sphincters…there’s some leakage when someone dies. The bacteria and stomach acid keep burning away, as there is no active system (immunity/mucous production etc) stopping further invasion of the bacteria, they get to work on the body.

>>Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.<<

Not a good joke. Catastrophic for the train driver’s mind. I know someone who had one too many people step in front of his train.

buffy said:

>>Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.<<

Not a good joke. Catastrophic for the train driver’s mind. I know someone who had one too many people step in front of his train.

It wouldn’t be very pleasant would it, you’d get a birds eye view as well

buffy said:

>>Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.<<

Not a good joke. Catastrophic for the train driver’s mind. I know someone who had one too many people step in front of his train.

I wonder how many times per year this happens in say Melbourne?

bob(from black rock) said:

buffy said:

>>Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.<<

Not a good joke. Catastrophic for the train driver’s mind. I know someone who had one too many people step in front of his train.

I wonder how many times per year this happens in say Melbourne?

A news article from 2012 reckons 34 a year from suicide and 46 in total

Cymek said:

bob(from black rock) said:

buffy said:

>>Step in front of a train. No stomach, no digestion, no problem.<<

Not a good joke. Catastrophic for the train driver’s mind. I know someone who had one too many people step in front of his train.

I wonder how many times per year this happens in say Melbourne?

A news article from 2012 reckons 34 a year from suicide and 46 in total

Would be enough to make me give up train driving.

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

bob(from black rock) said:

I wonder how many times per year this happens in say Melbourne?

A news article from 2012 reckons 34 a year from suicide and 46 in total

Would be enough to make me give up train driving.

This is the article, some poor bugger has seen 5 go under his train in 30 years

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hidden-tragedy-of-rail-suicides-20120603-1zq87.html

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

Cymek said:

A news article from 2012 reckons 34 a year from suicide and 46 in total

Would be enough to make me give up train driving.

This is the article, some poor bugger has seen 5 go under his train in 30 years

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/hidden-tragedy-of-rail-suicides-20120603-1zq87.html

I think our friend stopped driving after 4.

bob(from black rock) said:

I wonder how many times per year this happens in say Melbourne?

It’s the leading cause of medical absence from work among train drivers.

poikilotherm said:

Any muscle movement/tone would stop, which includes sphincters…there’s some leakage when someone dies. The bacteria and stomach acid keep burning away, as there is no active system (immunity/mucous production etc) stopping further invasion of the bacteria, they get to work on the body.

This was my understanding. :)

> A person has their evening meal and then goes to bed before their meal is digested, does digestion cease with their death?

My understanding is that shortly after death, digestion reverses. ie. the contents of the stomach and intestines soon begins to digest the human tissue around it. The cellular tissue around the digestive system relies on oxygen and nutrients carried around in the blood, and when the blood stops circulating those cells die. That provides food for the microbes and worms in the human gut. These produce gas as a byproduct that leads to bloating.

As a consequence, butchers, taxidermists and embalmers know that for preservation, the gut contents have to be rapidly removed.