in a nutshell, your body needs minerals and chemicals to both contract and release muscles. specifically calcium and ATP. Calcium causes muscles to contract and ATP causes them to release. cells in your body can stay alive for a while and continue to suck things out of your blood, such as calcium (causes muscle contraction = rigor) without oxygen your body can't produce ATP (muscles can't release = mortis/death) . Rigor mortis is essentially dead muscle spasms
I believe the embalmers who state, "This is not normal.", but just wondering, doesn't all the blood clot after death thus causing rigor mortis?
in a nutshell, your body needs minerals and chemicals to both contract and release muscles. specifically calcium and ATP. Calcium causes muscles to contract and ATP causes them to release. cells in your body can stay alive for a while and continue to suck things out of your blood, such as calcium (causes muscle contraction = rigor) without oxygen your body can't produce ATP (muscles can't release = mortis/death) . Rigor mortis is essentially dead muscle spasms
Thank you, got it.
So would the footage seen happen normally?
Don’t Know, I’m not an embalmer.
Once your blood stops pumping, it's like any other liquid - it just settles to the bottom.
Rigor mortis has more to do with chemicals released into the muscles during decomposition
Thank you. Makes sense.