16 Bizarre Things That Happen to Your Body After You Die

Your skin gets discolored

Your skin will turn colors—depending on what happens to you. As gravity takes hold, your skin will turn purplish-red where blood pools. And you can be very colorful if you happened to die certain ways: “If a person dies from carbon monoxide poisoning, the blood turns cherry red,” says Judy Melinek, MD, a forensic pathologist and co-author with T.J. Mitchell of the New York Times bestseller Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner. “It even brightens all the organs internally. Victims of hydrogen sulfide gas poisoning can turn green.” See what you should do now to get ready for the end of your life.

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