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What Happens to Your Body When You Die
人去世后身體發生什么變化
Listen up viewers,we’ve got important news for you:One of these days,you’re going to die.Well, hopefully it’s not going to happen today,so now that we’ve caught you while living, we want to hit you with some science so you’re aware of what goes on, after you’re gone.
觀眾朋友們請注意了，我們有個非常重要的消息要告訴你：總有一天，你會去世。不過，好在不會是今天，所以，在你仍然在世的時候，我們為大家播放這期節目，介紹一下人去世后會發生哪些變化。
Let’s say hypothetically that you were to just slump over dead in your chair right now. So, what happens next?
讓我們大膽假設，現在你坐在椅子上，魂飛天外，生命流逝。那么，接下來會發生什么呢？
Well, because your heart is no longer pumping, your blood stops flowing and coagulates - forming clots and becoming really thick and lumpy. As as your blood is no longer circulating, it settles where gravity forces it to – a process called post-mortem hypostasis or livor mortis.
因為你的心臟不再跳動，你的血液也停止流動，開始凝固——形成血塊，變得非常濃稠。由于你的血液不再循環，就在重力的作用下逐漸沉淀下來，形成尸斑。
Without circulation, your body temperature also drops and your muscles stiffen in the process known as rigor mortis.
沒有血液流動，你的體溫也下降，肌肉也開始僵硬，這個過程叫做尸僵。
Now, obviously you aren’t breathing any more. No respiration means no oxygen is getting to your cells.Without oxygen in your cells,the mitochrondria inside can’t make ATP, a chemical used for a host of cellular tasks.
現在，很明顯，你不能再呼吸了。沒有呼吸意味著沒有氧氣到達細胞。細胞中沒有氧氣，其中的線粒體就不能生成ATP——用來完成細胞任務的化學物質。
If your cells can’t make ATP,your cells stop working.In other words, you’re dead. With your cells now kaput,they start to break down and release all sorts of stuff including enzymes. That makes for an environment that is very attractive to bacteria and fungi,which eventually enter the mix and start decomposing, or putrefying the body.
如果你的細胞不能生成ATP，細胞就會停止工作。換句話說，你已經死亡了。細胞停止工作，就會開始分解和釋放所有物質，包括酶。這會造成滋生細菌和真菌的環境，最后開始分解或腐化身體。
This process certainly isn’t pretty,but it’s definitely normal.Now before you’re buried or cremated,your family may want a funeral.
這個過程當然不怎么有美感，但是很正常。現在，下葬或火化之前，家人想要舉辦葬禮。
To slow the decomposition process and keep you looking tidy, chemistry comes in handy via a process called embalming.
為了減緩腐化過程，讓遺容整潔，可以使用一些化學方法，該過程叫做防腐。
The embalming process happens in two steps. First, your body is going to be loaded full of preservative chemicals like formal dehyde or glutaraldehyde using a pump and your circulatory system. Next, all your stomach contents get sucked out and all the dark nether regions untouched by the circulatory system are filled up with the same chemicals.
防腐過程分為兩個步驟。首先，全身通過泵和循環系統充滿防腐化學物質，比如甲醛或戊二醛。接下來，胃部所有東西都被吸出來，循環系統觸碰不到的底部區域也填滿同樣的化學物質。
While the embalming process does offer more time for your family to bid farewell to a you that mostly looks like you, it is only temporary,then it’s back to decomposition.
防腐過程讓家人有更多時間來告別，讓你的遺容盡量保持不變。不過這只是暫時的，過后仍然會腐爛。
During the decomposition process,a huge array of chemical byproducts are spewed out by bacteria.Two in particular, putrecine and cadaverine smell absolutely disgusting, I mean really, they smell like a dead body.Sulfur containing compounds are also produced, which smells like rotten egg and skunk, along with countless other gases that work together, to temporarily make you more bloated than you ever were while living.
在腐爛過程中，細菌會生成許多化學副產品。尤其是聞上去非常讓人惡心的兩種物質，聞上去就像死尸。腐爛過程中還會生成含硫的物質，就像臭雞蛋和黃鼠狼的味道，還有無數其他氣體，讓你看上去比在世時更加浮腫。
Ok, so we’ve heard that some say that your hair and nails keep growing after you die.
我們聽到有人說，人去世后毛發和指甲還會繼續生長。
But, let’s see what mortician/youtuber Caitlin Doughty from The Order of the Good Death has to say about that.
但是我們來看一下專家怎么說。
“The hair on your head grows a tiny amount everyday, But when you die those processes stop.For thousands of years,people thought that the dead’s hair and fingernails kept growing after death, because that’s what it looked like to the naked eye.But it’s not that the hair and nails are growing, it’s that the rest of your body is shrinking. When you die, your body dehydrates and the formally moisturized plump skin shrivels. ”
“你的頭發每天都會生長一點。但是去世后這個過程就會停止。數千年來，人們一直以為人去世后頭發和指甲還會繼續生長，因為這只是憑肉眼看到的感覺。實際上不是頭發和指甲在生長，而是因為身體其他地方在萎縮。人去世后，身體就會脫水，原本水潤豐盈的皮膚也開始干枯。”
Okay, so now you’ve got a good sense of what happens when you can sense no more.And while it may seem like a dark topic, just remember,live life to the fullest!
現在，你已經知道去世后自己不能再感覺到的變化。這是一個比較低沉的話題。但是要記住：好好生活！
