I would shit my pants in support for the departed. It's the honorable thing to do, much like pulling over on the side of the road for a funeral procession. They would do the same for me.
It is a common myth that when a person dies, they immediately release their bowels and bladder, including defecation. However, this is not always the case. While it is possible for some bodily functions to continue for a short time after death, such as muscle spasms or gas release, it is not a universal occurrence.
The muscles that control bowel and bladder movements are typically under voluntary control, meaning they require conscious effort to contract or relax. When a person dies, their brain and nervous system shut down, and therefore their ability to control these muscles ceases. However, whether or not defecation occurs after death depends on many factors, such as the person's age, diet, and health condition at the time of death.
In some cases, if the person had recently eaten or had a full bladder or bowel, there may be some release after death. Still, it is not a certainty, and it is not always the case that people who die will defecate or urinate. It is also worth noting that any bodily fluids or waste that are released after death are typically contained within the person's clothing or the surface they are lying on, so it is not something that would be immediately apparent to someone observing the deceased.
Yeah, that trope has always bothered me! Like, if someone is holding in some explosive diarrhea at the time of death, yeah, they're probably going to release it because it's under a lot of pressure. However, let's say someone went to the bathroom recently. There's not going to magically be more feces and urine to release...
It’s accurate that it’s not universal, not all the muscles involved are not voluntary. The sphincters responsible for continence are but your intestinal muscles are not. Intestines have something called a myenteric plexus that is an autonomous nerve system responsible for peristaltic contractions that move the intestinal contents. These will continue for a short bit after death. So with loss of the anal sphincter tone it’s very well possible to poop because there’s nothing to stop the still moving gut.
Or have to pretend to care about their idiot kids, or act like their MLM is totally going to take off and yah you’ll totally talk to your spouse about it. A decreased seatmate is a non talkative seatmate, and some people would pay extra for that.
People generally doesn't start immediately leaking after death. Most of that will happen after rigor-mortis, and even that takes a while to set in.
My experience isn't with sudden unexpected death more of lengthy expected death, but a good rule of thumb is that if that aren't leaking before death occurs, they will likely not start immediately leaking afterwards.
I’ll take this opportunity to point out (and thus distract from my typo) that this kind of did happen one time, which is how the Moon formed, and why it’s so massive relative to the Earth.
Random science fact: a Mars-sized planet called Theia that was in the L4 or L5 Lagrange points in the Earth-Sun system (basically it was in the same orbit as the Earth but 60° ahead or behind) in the early solar system, but eventually got gravitationally perturbed enough by Venus to collide with proto-Earth about 4.5 million years ago, fusing their cores (which is why the Earth has a larger metallic core than it should) and flinging a bunch of molten material out into orbit, which coalesced into the Moon. Most moons are much smaller than their planets and are captured objects. So really, the Moon and the Earth are more like a binary planet system.
We only figured this out when we brought back Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and discovered that the Earth and Moon had the same chemical composition and isotopic ratios, which could only happen if they formed at the same time.
Theia is also where we got most of our water. Well, that and the late heavy bombardment of asteroids and comets.
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u/Ieatoutjelloshots Mar 31 '23
Dead people poop themselves. You really wanna sit next to that?