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How Dying Works

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Post Mortal Fetal Extrusion

Post mortal fetal extrusion is another name for it So the gases that build up in the body before the body ruptures can become so pressurized that a pregnant woman who has died With the fetus still in utero. This doesn't happen much anymore because we picked care of dead bodies pretty quickly Although they did find evidence of it in a case in 2008 where this woman was found like in the woods But um, it was described a lot in 16th to 18th century medical literature.

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