People have wondered what happens when we die since the beginning of human history, but let's put matters of religion and the afterlife aside and take a look at what happens to your body after you die ...

Mourners were left in shock at a funeral in the Dominican Republic after a dead man was seen suddenly opening and moving his ...

nor the reason gypsum was inside the coffin. "We don't know exactly why bodies were encased in plaster. It could also indicate the burial of a wealthy person." The press release noted that ...

Single graves were far more troublesome to break into – a tunnel would have to be dug, sometimes four feet down, the coffin broken into and the body carried to the surface. It became more common ...

Your body is made up of over 200 bones ... spilling all that fluid onto the coffin floor. By that night, an even more troubling process begins in the gut. Your dying immune system can no longer ...

Converting them to coffins if a patient dies will also reduce possible contamination, he said. "Once the bodies are prepared it is converted to a coffin and covered," said Gomez at his Bogota ...