After death, respiration in organisms ceases to occur, depleting the corpse of oxygen used in the making of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP). ATP is no longer provided to operate the SERCA pumps in the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum, which pump calcium ions into the terminal cisternae. This causes calcium ions to diffuse from the area of higher concentration (in the terminal cisternae and extracellular fluid) to an area of lower concentration (in the sarcomere), binding with troponin and allowing for crossbridging to occur between myosin and actin proteins.
Unlike in a normal muscle contraction, after death the body is unable to complete the cycle and release the coupling between the myosin and actin, creating a perpetual state of muscular contraction, until the breakdown of muscle tissue by digestive enzymes during decomposition. As part of the process of decomposition, the myosin heads are eaten off by bacteria, allowing the muscle contraction to release and the body to relax.
it basically means that they are as boring as a dead person, as 'stiff' is slang for a dead body.
Chemical changes in the blood after death cause a dead body to become stiff within hours after death. This stiffness is called rigor mortis. It usually goes away within 12 hours of onset.
Rigor mortis is dead stiff body, not really called posturing.
Sadly, no. Once the dead puppy has become stiff, rigor mortis has set in and there is nothing that can be done to revive it.
Embalming basically dehydrates the body and uses various chemicals to coat the body's tissues. Ever eaten a peice of beef jerky? That's a dead body. Dehydrated and stiff. Of course, the body naturally goes stiff after death when the muscles seize up and become a little like beef jerky.
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The dead body was already stiff when I found it there.
dead body, cadaver, carcass, stiff, remains, carrion, the deceased, roadkill
(Just guessing to the best of my ability.) Because without blood circulation your body would become stiff, and start to rot away. Basically, your body needs to pump blood so all of your organs will continue to function and to keep your body from just stiffening up and becoming a chunk of dead meat.
If it is like that, cold and not breathing, yes, it is dead.
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Actually this is our misconception that a body become heavy after death, but in fact a person when died he or she loss equilibrium and then its seems to us heavy.