The macabre fate of 'beating heart corpses'

The macabre fate of 'beating heart corpses'

Their hearts are still beating. They urinate. Their bodies don't decompose and they are warm to the touch; their stomachs rumble, their wounds heal and their guts can digest food. They can have heart attacks, catch a fever and suffer from bedsores. They can blush and sweat - they can even have babies.

bbc.com

A dark, but incredibly interesting, read.

In fact, biologically speaking, there has never been a single moment of death; each passing is really a series of mini-deaths, with different tissues dropping off at different rates. “Choosing a definition of death is essentially a religious or philosophical question,” says Veatch.