How do our bodies rot when we die?

Question

When we die what makes our bodies rot and decinigrate and rot.Where under ground!

Answer 1

all of the chemicals in the body are breaking down because all of the organs have ceased to function, nothing is circulating through the body anymore

Answer 2

big *** bugs and stuff eat it up!

Answer 3

there flesh eating bacteria in your body and your body is dead so you have no white blood cells to stop them

Answer 4

Under ground is where things like bacteria and mold reside, they are what do the decomposing!

Answer 5

Sometimes, on the night of your funeral, men dressed in dark clothing come and quickly dig you up.

You will be taken somewhere -not sure where though.

I lived next to a cemetery and it wasn't unusual.

Answer 6

Your body is covered with bacteria. Your intestinal track is filled with bacteria which helps you digest your food into absorbable minerals. While you are alive, your body keeps these bacteria under control so that they don't take over the body. Anti-bodies (white cells) are in your blood stream. Your blood is pumped to every area of your body. The blood provides nutrients and water, and at the same time white blood cells which actually eat and absorb bacteria.

When the bacteria get out of control (infections), is when your immune system (lymph nodes which create the white blood cells) battles the bacteria.  If the white blood cells lose the battle you get sick and at worse die.  When your white blood cells win the battle it kills the bacteria and the dead bacteria is taken out of the body by the white blood cells (puss).

When you die, the lymph nodes stop functioning, the bacteria cells out-number the white blood cells, and the bacteria begin to consume the tissue of your body. Eventually after the bacteria eat all of your body tissue all that is left is the bones (calcium) and your hair (chitin).

Answer 7

Bacteria.

Answer 8

GROSS!!! why would I answer that question?1?

Answer 9

put a steak on the counter in a sandwich bag  and  see what  happens  to  it  same  thing  as  a  body  its  starts  to  rot  there is  no  oxygen  or  blood  flowing  in a dead  body  so  it  starts  decaying

Answer 10

that gross no one really wants to answer this question!!!

Answer 11

Underground is where bacteria really thrives. When we're dead, our immune system is no longer functioning, so we have no protection against bacterial cells.

Basically.. they eat us.

Answer 12

decomposition

Answer 13

it takes hundreds of years with the formaldehyde.

Answer 14

theres left over food in your body

it's just that the animals that consume it are too small for us to see there just underground any were actually

Answer 15

It is a break down of all matter within the body.

The body of a living organism begins to decompose (as part of a succession) shortly after death. Such decomposition can be categorized by two stages: In the first stage, it is limited to the production of vapors. In the second stage, liquid materials form and the flesh or plant matter begins to decompose.