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Do you really poop when you die?

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Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
You lose 21 grams when you die, aside from that I don't know much about death.

No, you do not, unless you believe in bad science. From Snopes:

What to make of all this? MacDougall's results were flawed because the methodology used to harvest them was suspect, the sample size far too small, and the ability to measure changes in weight imprecise. For this reason, credence should not be given to the idea his experiments proved something, let alone that they measured the weight of the soul as 21 grams. His postulations on this topic are a curiousity, but nothing more.
 

Mucho

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Oct 20, 2001
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I read the memoirs of a New York homicide detective (cant remember the name of the book) he said murder victims usually do.
 

NetGuySC

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Nov 19, 1999
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I read somewhere that most people that drove head on, into a semi actually pooped just before they died.
 

Eli

Super Moderator | Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: NetGuySC
I read somewhere that most people that drove head on, into a semi actually pooped just before they died.

LOL
 

potato28

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Originally posted by: Trippin315
You lose all muscle control. bile would naturally come out, so yes
Just because it was said on SP, doesn't mean its not true.

They were rite about the Red Rocket thing... :p
 

Tiamat

Lifer
Nov 25, 2003
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Originally posted by: WhoBeDaPlaya
Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
It doesn't matter, once you're dead, you poop and pee yourself when the muscles loose signal from the brain. Also, for some reason men get erections when they die. I learned this in the police academy.
So all men go happy? :p

no, just unfulfilled.
 

Howard

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

It doesn't matter, once you're dead, you poop and pee yourself when the muscles loose signal from the brain. Also, for some reason men get erections when they die. I learned this in the police academy.
Probably not if they die on their backs.
 

sygyzy

Lifer
Oct 21, 2000
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Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

Good point. This only applies when you die peacefully (in your sleep). When you are in combat, the adrenaline prevents you from pooping when you die.
 

Azndude51

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

It doesn't matter, once you're dead, you poop and pee yourself when the muscles loose signal from the brain. Also, for some reason men get erections when they die. I learned this in the police academy.

That makes sense that it could happen because iirc from a discovery channel show, men are in a constant state of arousal and your brain has to actively keep you from getting a boner.


Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
You lose 21 grams when you die, aside from that I don't know much about death.

Sounds like BS to me. Where does the weight go?

People who believe it say that it's the weight of your soul leaving your body.
 

dds14u

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Feb 24, 2004
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Originally posted by: sygyzy
Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

Good point. This only applies when you die peacefully (in your sleep). When you are in combat, the adrenaline prevents you from pooping when you die.

People can't poop when they have adrenaline?
 

The Batt?sai

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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

It doesn't matter, once you're dead, you poop and pee yourself when the muscles loose signal from the brain. Also, for some reason men get erections when they die. I learned this in the police academy.

:confused: fatal attraction?
 

BrokenVisage

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Originally posted by: Azndude51
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
You lose 21 grams when you die, aside from that I don't know much about death.

Sounds like BS to me. Where does the weight go?

People who believe it say that it's the weight of your soul leaving your body.

Hey I'm as anti-religious as the next atheist, but here's what snopes says about it.
 

TechnoPro

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Jul 10, 2003
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Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
Originally posted by: xit2nowhere
Btw, are we talking dying as in peacefully dying or dying like dying in combat ?

It doesn't matter, once you're dead, you poop and pee yourself when the muscles loose signal from the brain. Also, for some reason men get erections when they die. I learned this in the police academy.

I knew a nurse who worked in the neonatal department for a while. She told me that baby boys are born with erections some time. Crazy, so it really is from the cradle to the grave...
 

Shadowknight

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May 4, 2001
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According to the wikipedia article on death, you're supposed to lose control of your bowels and urine system once your body is moved after death.