Life depends on death — living things die, decompose and eventually become nutrients for other life. But when humans die, we’re often embalmed and buried or cremated. So are we breaking the circle of life? Also, check out episode 1 of Vitals!
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Identifying human diamine sensors for death related putrescine and cadaverine molecules
Putrescine and cadaverine - Biochemistry Changes That Occur after Death: Potential Markers for Determining Post-Mortem Interval
- A greener way to go: what’s the most eco-friendly way to dispose of a body?
- More People Want a Green Burial, but Cemetery Law Hasn’t Caught Up
- Thinking About Having a ‘Green’ Funeral? Here’s What to Know
- Scientists search for death’s aroma
- Recycling the dead
- Decomposers
- Life after death: the science of human decomposition
- Modeling a cadaver decomp island
- The science of human decay
- Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems
- Human versus animal: contrasting decomposition dynamics of mammalian analogues in experimental taphonomy
- The Chemistry Decomposition in Human Corpses
- Postmortem Changes
- Burial & cremation rates in US
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