rigor mortis /oss/taxonomy/term/5400/all en In Death, Our Body Feasts on Itself /oss/article/general-science/death-our-body-feasts-itself <p>A pretty morbid question perhaps, but why is it that our body does not decompose while we are alive? Most of<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118953358"> </a><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118953358">the post-mortem changes that affect our body</a> are the result of things we already carry inside of us, so how is it that these potent destructors are kept in check before we die?</p> Thu, 20 May 2021 20:05:34 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8740 at /oss