What happens to the ~45 liters of water in the human body once the person dies and is buried in a coffin?

Question

What happens to the ~45 liters of water in the human body once the person dies and is buried in a coffin?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I don’t know how graphic of a description you want, but essentially they are ingested and broken down by organisms like bacteria and fungi producing new chemicals as the body decomposes. Eventually they escape the body.

But this is why in most places bodies are embalmed and preserved before burial. This slows the decomposition process and makes it not so… Offputting.