Within seconds of death, your body's supply of oxygen will be depleted, and your brain activity surges. This might sound a little counter-intuitive, seeing as dead people don't have thoughts, but you can think of this activity as the last dying bursts of activity from neurons that are no longer supported by oxygen and hormone production.
The body's stores of adenosine triphosphate ATP - the body's main source of energy - are also depleted, so following any last-second twitches, your muscles will totally relax, including sphincter.
This means if your bowels were full at the time of death, they won't be for very long. You sort of get an erection. You fart through your mouth. You twitch. You moan and groan. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. More From Health. Finally, charges Julietta's Reginlaze and she does everything she can to stop him before he gets to her; when he gets within melee range, her sword rips off the Barbatos' cockpit hatch In Lord Marksman and Vanadis , Roland is murdered when he is trapped in a room with a swarm of bees.
Later, after clearing the bees away, his killers comment on how Roland's body didn't fall over. In Zombieland Saga , Ai Mizuno died when she was struck by lightning during one of her concerts. She's shown standing upright immediately afterwards, burnt to a crisp and still pointing straight up at the sky. A non-fatal villainous variant occurs in My Hero Academia. Stain, heavily injured after his fight against Izuku, Shoto, and Iida, escapes his bonds and rescues a heavily-injured Izuku from a noumu.
He proceeds to turn to the assembled pro heroes, which includes Endeavor, and takes a few steps while releasing a Killing Intent so strong it freezes all of them in place. He then stands still, and it takes them several nervous seconds to realize that's because he passed out standing up.
In Vinland Saga , Thors remains standing up even as he's shot repeatedly with arrows and killed, and remains in a standing position afterwards. In Basilisk , the ninja duel between Muroga Hyouma and Chikuma Koshirou ends with the former dying while standing up, though he was leaning on his sword.
The Punisher MAX had a crazy mobster henchman who after having one of his eyes pulled out, getting cut, beaten, shot, impaled on an iron spiked fence and having Frank blow his head in half with a shotgun still took two more steps making even Frank panic a little. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? It doesn't do his body much good: Braniac controls his corpse like a macabre puppet. The Braniac-cap himself exhibits this trait once rigor mortis sets in, detaching itself crawling "powered only by malice", swearing to kill Superman even as it dies.
When she finally asks the sun god Ra to take away her "gift", her body is temporarily left as a standing, human-shaped figure of dust. In Larry Hama's recent G. After helping her out, they enter the burning cabin to find three ninjas just standing there on fire.
Scarlett remarks that it must have been recent, as they don't realize they're dead yet. The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter : Both loyalist General Yeung Yip and one of his 7 sons dies on their feet—the former after killing himself with a blow to the head, the latter when he is filled so full of arrows by Liao Dynasty archers that he is killed on the spot, but doesn't fall over. A variation happens near the end of The 13th Warrior where after barely defeating the enemy, Buliwyf is seen to plunge his sword into the ground and sit down on a log at the base of the defensive wall, watching their retreat.
Moments later the other men realize that he has finally died of the poison he was inflicted with earlier and is sitting there, staring into the distance. The beginning of the film-noir parody The Cheap Detective has the detective inspecting several corpses that are frozen in upright positions, killed so fast that they didn't have time to react. A Furyan character in The Chronicles of Riddick commits suicide by walking into a storm of solar radiation, and is shown still walking even as his body gets incinerated.
A subversion in the comedy western City Slickers : Curly the leather-tough cowboy dies upright.. At the end of the film he died standing upright on a pier littered with dead enemies, and plenty more corpses floating in the waters around him, to the extent that the enemy general ends up ordering his soldiers to retreat as a sign of respect. The titular character of the propaganda movie, Dong Cun-rui , dies in this manner, propping a bundle of explosives under a bridge to blow up a platoon of enemy soldiers after failing to find a ledge to install the explosives, saving hundreds of lives of his own comrades in the process.
Edward Scissorhands : The Inventor died of a heart attack while still standing up to present Edward with his new hands. Zigzagged since while he did technically die while standing up, his body fell over afterward. In Final Destination , Billy gets his head taken off in mid-rant by a piece of shrapnel kicked up by the passing train that just took out Carter's car, and he stays on his feet for a Beat before keeling over. In Glory , when Trip grasps the Union flag to rally the regiment after Col.
Shaw is killed, he too is fatally shot. He slumps forward, but uses the flagpole to keep himself erect, dying while still up as his comrades finally surge forward. The moment is foreshadowed the night before when the regiment is prepping themselves spiritually for the battle. Rawlins: "Heavenly Father, to ask your blessings on all of us. So that if tomorrow is the great getting-up morning, if that tomorrow we have to meet the Judgement Day, O Heavenly Father, we want you to let our folks know that we died facing the enemy!
We want 'em to know that we went down standing up! Chris , right after he is shot by Sarah in Endgame Trilogy In Stephen Crane's American Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage , the protagonist's friend, Jim Conklin, is mortally wounded and leaves his marching regiment rather than fall and be run over by artillery. He dies standing in a nearby field. The appendices to The Lord of the Rings include the story of Helm Hammerhand, an ancient King of Rohan who, being besieged in the Hornburg during a bad winter, took to going out alone at night and kill enemies with his bare hands.
One day he didn't return, and in the morning was found outside standing upright, but dead and frozen. Finduilas in The Silmarillion dies pinned to a tree after the siege of Nargothrond. She was being taken to the big bad's fortress Angband as a slave but the slavers were ambushed by the Haladin rangers.
The bad guys executed their prisoners and retreated. Though, in this case she didn't die standing because she was badass. Likely it was for a very different reason, but Tolkien leaves that to the imagination. A non-badass version in Let's Go Play at the Adams'. The only reason Barbara does this is because of how she is tied up when she dies. In The Bartimaeus Trilogy , Verroq the Mercenary has all of his flesh eaten off and continues to walk.
Everyone was impressed at how well Unn had kept her dignity to her dying day. Live-Action TV. Happens a lot in The Expanse , since people typically wear magnetic boots in zero-g. So when someone is shot, they look like they're about to float away, but the boots keep them firmly rooted to the floor.
Religion, Mythology and History. Saito no Musashibo Benkei is said to have died this way, in the 12th Century. After fighting to buy time for his lord to commit Seppuku , none of the enemy wanted to test his wrath, believing him to be a demon from hell.
Medically speaking, it's believed that the lactic acid his muscles produced from the fighting caused a sudden onset of rigor mortis, causing his body to "Lock up" while still standing and holding his spear. He has a small shrine today where this happened—see Case Closed above, where it becomes a plot point, and many characters in Japanese media have deaths based on his death. Benkei guarded the bridge to his master's keep and is said to have killed over trained soldiers that attempted to cross the bridge.
Because of their fear of him, they shot arrows to try and fell him, but he held his position riddled with those arrows. The only reason they approached was because they realized he had stopped moving for far to long. Rumor claimed that Blackbeard 's headless body, after being thrown overboard, swam between 2 and 7 times around the Adventure before sinking.
The mayor then had the entirety of the crew decollated anyway. In Islamic legend, it is said that Prophet Sulaiman better known as King Solomon died like this, propped against a staff, while overseeing the djinns under his command building a castle. He finally toppled down after termites ate his staff.
In the historical fiction tale, Romance of the Three Kingdoms , it's said that this is how Cao Cao's bodyguard, Dian Wei, died, blocking a gate so that the assassins sent to kill his lord couldn't go after him. His valor terrified the assassins, and made Cao Cao's other enemies begin to revere the man.
Also counts as a Dying Moment of Awesome. Invoked by Roman emperor Vespasian, who felt "An emperor ought to die standing". A friend called out when he saw Andrew Evans, 35, through the window standing up with his hand reaching into a cupboard in the kitchen of his East Grinstead, West Sussex home.
But it was only when he received no reply and let himself in that Mr Evans's friend realised that he was dead. Mr Evans had injured his head before his death on May 10, but it is not known how seriously. Horsham Coroner's court heard how Mr Evans was four times the drink drive limit when he died. It is thought that he died after blacking out as he reached into a cupboard in his kitchen.
His body is said to have fallen against the kitchen fittings and he remained standing up. His injury had caused him to bleed heavily, but the court heard he might not have realised how serious the injury was 'because of his intoxicated state'.
Coroner Dr David Skipp said at the inquest last week that the death was 'strange', but said he died from asphyxiation of the lungs. He said: 'It is unusual for a man whose alcohol levels were high to be found stood against a work surface. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
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