Livor mortis is the pooling of blood in lower areas of the corpse, usually a person’s back. (Again, thanks, gravity.) The pools tend to be purple in color. In Latin, the phrase means “the bluish color of death.”
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies by Caitlin Doughty.
