# When we die, where does our blood go?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [April 13, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609 "2023-04-13T03:49:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/21 "2023-04-15T02:35:08Z")
Braniff supposedly issues in Mexico with one of their aircraft in the Jellybean livery, because the shade of purple was similar to the moth and it spooked some of the locals.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/22 "2023-04-15T02:59:52Z")
My father died sitting up in bed. When I got there the upper half of his body was white, giving the definitive meaning to the expression “dead white.”
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### Author:  [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/23 "2023-04-15T03:45:26Z")
Yes, hummingbirds, butterflies, and corn and flowers too!
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/24 "2023-04-15T15:35:20Z")
There’s a nice YouTube channel called [Ask A Mortician](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCi5iiEyLwSLvlqnMi02u5gQ). She’s a big proponent of expanding the methods of dealing with the departed including composting and “water cremation” (dissolving in acid). Some people get all upset about composting or dissolving “grandma”, and the resulting disposal of the results, but don’t seem to be bothered that blood and other fluids from bodies go down the drain.
During an autopsy, all sorts of tissues may be removed for later analysis and not put back for the funeral. (Fun fact: **Mrs. FtG** once observed an autopsy. To fill in the space left by the removal of organs kitty litter was used.) These organs and such are later disposed of just like stuff taken from live people during surgery. I.e., a certain class of medical waste.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/25 "2023-04-17T13:10:29Z")
There’s also a horror computer game called [The Mortuary Assistant](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/TheMortuaryAssistant). It’s allegedly pretty accurate as far as some of the procedures and tools such as draining blood (but not the scary stuff).
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2023, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/26 "2023-04-17T15:55:46Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#):
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> > [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> > Good blood goes to Bludhaven.
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> And Bad Blood goes back to Taylor, swiftly.
“That’s odd, usually the blood gets off at the second floor.”
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### Author:  [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-we-die-where-does-our-blood-go/982609/27 "2023-04-24T02:18:26Z")
> [@gnoitall](#):
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> the pathogenicity of the Andromeda microbe
Wasn’t it more than coagulated? I seem to remember it was turned to powder.
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