With 11 presidential hopefuls competing in second live televised debate, cast your vote on who fared best. 5:42AM BST 17 Sep 2015. The second Republican debate on CNN was a marathon of attacks, counter-punches and strange moments.
Messages: 3,553. White people's funerals are typically 3 days after death, unless that 3rd day would be on a Sunday, then they'd move it to Sat/Mon instead. Black families usually have more time - 5-7 days or more, I guess because of the reasons listed above, and maybe it's cultural.
At the same time, without circulation to keep it moving through the body, blood starts to pool and settle. Rigor mortis, or a stiffening of the body, sets in about two to six hours after death [source: Marchant, Middleton ]. While the body as a whole may be dead, little things within the body are still alive. Skin cells, for example, can be viably harvested for up to 24 hours after death [source: Mims ]. But some things that are still alive lead to the putrefaction, or decomposition, of the body -- we're talking about little organisms that live in the intestines.