What Happens When You Die? | Earth Lab

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Greg Foot explores what actually happens to our bodies when we die.
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Footnote 1 - Roach, Mary. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Footnote 2 - http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0110753 and an interesting example here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-31125338
Footnote 3 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11389464
Footnote 4 - Du et al 2015, Multicolor Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots of Live Cell Imaging. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology 11 (5), pp780-788. NB There are multiple similar methods.

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