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Your Dead Body

by  Saṃsāran

Human beings are occupied planets. In addition to our own cells we have 100,000,000,000,000 (that’s trillion with a “T”) other life forms living on and in us. This is not just bacteria and viruses but mites, arachnids and worms. Our parasites have parasites which have their own parasites. Most of these are entirely harmless and many are actually beneficial. On one level this is beyond creepy but on another it is very awesome. We are a planet with several ecosystems. We have our deserts i.e. the skin and our rain forests i.e. the gut.

Even our parasite’s parasites have parasites

Now inside our stomach and intestines live trillions of one celled creatures in many thousands of different forms in what is known to science as the gut biome.  While we live they do not bother us at all except the occasional bad guy like salmonella or hantavirus. However, the minute “we” die our own cells begin to die since our hearts are no longer pumping blood. It takes a few days for all of our cells to die. So, parts of us live for a time while we, our consciousness, moves on. As we, rather our bodies, die we become food. Those creatures living in our gut begin to eat us from the inside out. They break ope the cell membranes like plastic bags filled with goodies and absorb the proteins in our cells and use this new energy and new materials to create more copies of themselves. They multiply incredibly fast. As they digest our body they create methane as a byproduct. This is what causes corpses to fill with gas. 

Assuming we are not embalmed (embalming is just saturating the body tissues with an antibacterial agent) we will be digested by these creatures fairly quickly in wet and warm climates and slowly in cold and dry climates. It may take as many as five years before we are completely digested. That means for five years our flesh is feeding the very creatures who are living within us right now. Alive we take energy and building materials from the dead bodies of plants and animals. The minute our cells die the process is reversed.

In a sense it is kind of harmonious and balanced. Even beautiful.

By: ๑ Samsaran ๑