Fairy Tale Spotlight: Death and the Release of Energy

In a recent blog, I explained that an massive amount of energy is released when a human dies, but I don't think I did a very good job explaining why. I kind of did it a little bit in the response to one of the comments, but it really ought to be within the blog itself. So I'll lay it out for you as clearly as I can.

Energy is the ability to do work. Things move when there is energy present. If you try to remain perfectly still, you will still wobble a bit. Your heart is still pumping blood through your body. That pumping wracks your body with a pulsating movement that is near impossible to control. You can't stay still. You just can't.

The reason your heart beats at all is because of energy. Without energy, everything would just stop moving. If you want to know what a lack of energy looks like, gaze upon a rock for about an hour or so. No, you don't have to do it, but I am sure you can imagine what it would be like. It's just going to sit there and do absolutely nothing for the entire hour. Now give the rock a shove and watch it roll around. That is you transferring energy from yourself into the inanimate rock which causes it to be momentarily animated. It's very brief. The rock will ultimately stop moving again.

The human body is full of energy that we do have to replenish from time to time. Some of it we used to work physically, and it can be used in social situations as well, as to inspire someone. If you encourage someone to do something, you are transferring energy to them. It leaves you and goes into them, at which point they can use it or waste it.

So now let's talk about death. I don't want you thinking energy bursting out at the moment of death as an obligatory thing. It happens for a reason. Remember the rock experiment? What happened when the rock stopped moving? It stopped. It stopped because the energy that was moving it was expended. A dead body is much like a rock. It's a bit of a pointless thing that tends to just lay there until someone moves it.

The reason there is such a huge energy burst when a human dies is because, when a human dies, it suddenly goes from being a very mobile thing to very inert. The energy can't exist within it and so it is forcefully ejected out of it. Now this is, of course, the majority of it. There is still little bits of energy still in there which assist in the decomposition of the body, but human potential is far greater than what is needed for that. It expends out in whatever corridors it was provided by the human while he was alive, and this usually means into other humans.

So in short, energy leaves the body in massive amounts because it had no reason to be within a dead body to begin with. I mean... what is the dead body going to do with it? Energy always has to go somewhere. Since we already know energy can be transferred through methods that don't require direct contact, the energy is sent off to its new location expediently and sometimes over the course of a matter of time. But it always goes somewhere.

I hope this better clarifies things.

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