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Diffusion does occur whenever molecular movement is possible. An organism lives because it is able to establish its own equilibria that are different from the random chaos that is nature's equilibrium. After death, any particle that is not in a state of nature's equilibrium will trend to that state until it is achieved. Restated, everything trends towards nature's equilibrium unless some energy is expended to do otherwise. All energy production ceases soon after death. This is when everything trends back to "nature's equilibrium."

Active transport occurs in live organisms as energy is required to move molecules against "nature's equilibrium." After death, energy production soon stops. When it does, so does active transport.

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