I was at the beach today thinking I’m basically just a slab of meat in the sun. How come I don’t rot? What prevents living things from decomposing and how does that change when we die?
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Sometimes they do. Google gangrene or weeping wounds that do not heal. Then look up necrosis in living humans. Then lung disease where the lungs rot in the body.
Oh then there are the mites in your eyebrows that eat your skin.
Fungus in your ears, toes and crotch if you are unlucky.
There are parasites that eat you alive.
Body odor is the excretions from bacteria eating your body oils.
Teeth rot in your mouth. Right now your mouth is an orgy of decay.
Also remember your very survival depends on bacteria in your gut rotting away in a balanced way the food you eat.
The world is eating you alive every day, it is just when the major organs fail and you die the balance is shifted to complete decay.
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