[ SECRET POST #1798 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1798 ⌋


Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

HONEST QUESTION

[(Anonymous)]

How often does that happen in real life? Is it the norm? Only sometimes? Half and half?

Re: HONEST QUESTION

[(Anonymous)]

http://fandomsecrets.livejournal.com/801593.html?thread=505265209#t505265209 < seems to come from someone who has handled more dead bodies?

Honest Answer

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon from above...good god why am I online talking about poopwhatiswrongwithmylife...

Anyway...

Short answer is: occasionally.

Long answer is that normally to push stuff through your large intestine you need both gut peristalsis (contraction of the intestine itself) and to push it out of your rectum you need to contract your abdominal muscles and relax your anal sphincters. When you die, gut peristalsis comes to a halt, but the sphincters relax as well. Anything that is really watery/soft can seep out, but normally that isn't terribly much. Probably wouldn't even be noticeable (god, my job would be so much more pleasant during pelvis dissections if everything was just evacuated O_o). Same thing happens with your bladder - it won't contract (unless maybe you're really really scared right before death), but the sphincter will relax, and urine will seep out.

/steps away from lecture podium, runs away in shame

Re: Honest Answer

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I only skimmed the first half of your comment upthread, sorry!

Ohhh, that is fascinating! /has no shame about bodily functions if there is learning to be had, apparently

Re: Honest Answer

[green-glee.livejournal.com]

This was actually very informing, thanks! I love it when I browse f!s and suddenly BOOM a piece of random knowledge!

Re: Honest Answer

[goobbledigook.livejournal.com]

So eating lots of fiber will save me from post-mortum humiliation right? GOOD TO KNOW

Re: Honest Answer

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

This entire thread has been very interesting and your comments are fascinating. Thanks for telling us about all this...I have to admit that it's not something I really thought about before but now I feel all educated, lol

Re: Honest Answer

[(Anonymous)]

okay so really weird response, but can I just say thank you for writing this?

one of my siblings died several years ago, while they were away at college and it has always gnawed at me... the idea that their roommate found them in a stinking pile of their own excrement. It just... I don't know it's weird to think about but it's bothered me, like that they had to go in such an undignified way? idk

but know that I know it's more of a myth, it does make me a feel a little better.

Re: Honest Answer

[(Anonymous)]

I'm glad this was able to help you, even in just a little way.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

I've had to perform my fair share of post-mortem care, and I can say with confidence that I've never had to clean up any bowel movements (unless you are counting that one horrible time a patient had a massive MI while on the bedpan, but I am not). Urine, yes, all the time -- but then again I'm usually working with a population where urinary incontinence is more or less the norm, so I'm never exactly sure just when they actually voided.