why do bodies look so different when they’re dead?

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I 23(f) have lost two close friends in horrific circumstances over the last few years. Can anyone explain to me why bodies,
particularly faces, looks so different after death – is it because they’ve been embalmed, or is it the human brain not being able to process what they’re seeing infront of them? Apologies if this is too gruesome for this sub, i think this might be me grieving and just trying to find some way to understand why.

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All of these answers are great and explain it brilliantly. However, just to add to the mix as a paramedic and having worked on many many arrests and traumas etc. there is definitely a moment life leaves the body be that a soul or whatever. But you see and feel it happen and you know they are gone even if we are working on them and nothing has changed in the arrest.

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