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Description: Are humans destroying the circle of life? #decomposition #death #burial #ecosystem Check out episode 1 of Vitals! youtu.be/xus08qnUxPE You might also like: The Top 5 Strangest Poisons That Can Kill You: youtu.be/4hQ0G0GaYR8 Can You Cryogenically Freeze Your Body and Come Back to Life? youtu.be/Wk2NxBYCe6s How to Dispose of a Dead Body: youtu.be/1C0AF_y_Ms8 We Tried to Preserve a Strawberry Forever. Things Got…Ugly: youtu.be/E25TcUUjqDU What Happens When You Overdose?: youtu.be/xLSz3wEgwJ8 Credits: Executive Producers: George Zaidan Hilary Hudson Producers: Elaine Seward Andrew Sobey Darren Weaver Andy Adkins Writer/Host: Sam Jones, PhD Andy Adkins Scientific consultants: Michelle Boucher, PhD Brianne Raccor, PhD Sasha Voss, PhD Danny Wescott, PhD Sources: Identifying human diamine sensors for death related putrescine and cadaverine molecules ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5783396 Putrescine and cadaverine rsc.org/images/TM0512-putrescine-cadaverine_tcm18-221656.pdf Biochemistry Changes That Occur after Death: Potential Markers for Determining Post-Mortem Interval ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3836773/#:~:text=An%20early%20study%20reported%20that,by%2096%20hours%20post%2Dmortem. A greener way to go: what’s the most eco-friendly way to dispose of a body? theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/09/greener-way-to-go-eco-friendly-way-dispose-of-body-burial-cremation More People Want a Green Burial, but Cemetery Law Hasn’t Caught Up pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2019/11/20/more-people-want-a-green-burial-but-cemetery-law-hasnt-caught-up#:~:text=While%20no%20state%20laws%20explicitly,burial%20to%20gain%20a%20foothold. Thinking About Having a ‘Green’ Funeral? Here’s What to Know nytimes.com/2018/03/22/smarter-living/green-funeral-burial-environment.html Scientists search for death’s aroma cen.acs.org/articles/94/i14/Scientists-search-deaths-aroma.html Recycling the dead sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/recycling-dead Decomposers scienceworld.ca/resource/decomposers Life after death: the science of human decomposition theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2015/may/05/life-after-death Modeling a cadaver decomp island mat.ucm.es/momat/2010-05-11NadiaSmithRepotOxfordCadaver.pdf The science of human decay vox.com/2014/10/28/7078151/body-farm-texas-freeman-ranch-decay Cadaver decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17091303 Human versus animal: contrasting decomposition dynamics of mammalian analogues in experimental taphonomy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23550805 The Chemistry Decomposition in Human Corpses researchgate.net/publication/318772231_The_Chemistry_Decomposition_in_Human_Corpses Postmortem Changes ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539741 Burial & cremation rates in US nfda.org/news/statistics#:~:text=Rates%20of%20Cremation%20and%20Burial,up%208.1%25%20from%202015).