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Do dead people defacate

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It depends. Excrement is purged from the body by muscle compressions in your abdomen and large intestine.

Depending on the time after irrecoverable brain death has occurred, the muscle spasms continue for a period of time which force faeces to the anus. This can cause a dead person to defaecate.

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14y ago

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