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How Dying Works

Stuff You Should Know

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The Microbiome and Death

The very organisms that are going to decompose your body when you die. They're just sitting around waiting waiting for action wait for the signal Yep, um when you die There's a lot of stuff that's still alive that's still going on even though you're bringing dead whole brain higher brain Heart dead your heart stops. You're dead. That's another definition of death. Um So chuck I want to alarm you right now Boy you have living in your guts right now The very organisms that is going to decomposing your body whenyou die. Yeah, there's like super fast All right, so that's all I got on the eyesUm So chuck I wants to alarm youright now

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