ELI5, what happens to the blood on a corpse when someone dies, it goes downwards or stops its flow or goes somewhere to the body? what happens?

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ELI5, what happens to the blood on a corpse when someone dies, it goes downwards or stops its flow or goes somewhere to the body? what happens?

In: Biology

Answer 1

It sorta pools at the bottom.
It’s called [Livor Mortis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livor_mortis) (warning that link has a picture of dead person in it)
Within 2 hours you can start seeing something that like a bruise on the entire bottom side.
Normally your body pumps blood out of the little blood carrying capillaries.
Since your body isn’t doing that any more the blood gets stuck, making it look like a bruise.

Answer 2

It stops. “Goff explains, “[T]he blood begins to settle, by gravity, to the lowest portions of the body,” causing the skin to become discolored. This process may begin after about an hour following death and can continue to develop until the 9–12 hour mark postmortem.”