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How many days does it take to stop breathing?

It usually stops for three days.

The traditional funeral process is probably a small funeral, cleaning, wearing a shroud, and then family members begin to mourn, relatives and friends come to pay their respects, and then stop. In this process, they always have to accept condolences from relatives and friends.

It usually takes at least three days to wake up, and then the coat begins. A coat is to move the deceased into the coffin, seal the coffin after everything is done, and then you can do the funeral. The ancients had many rules in these processes, and now many of them are simplified.

In these links, there is a rule that people will not break so far, that is, three days of mortuary, of course, the rules vary from place to place, generally speaking, up to seven days.

The origin of the necromancer:

I believe everyone has heard the story of the sudden resurrection of the deceased lying in the mourning hall.

There are not a few such supernatural stories. In fact, from a scientific point of view, this is only the resurrection of the suspended animation, not what people think is superstitious.

According to historical records, Bian Que in the Spring and Autumn Period created this miracle of coming back to life. Bian Que once cured a dead prince, but in fact the prince was in a state of suspended animation.

Therefore, the ancients knew this truth a long time ago, and the purpose of stopping for three days was to prevent suspended animation. This rule is still continuing.

Now the standard for judging death is brain death, so there will be no suspended animation. The three-day rule of the morgue continues, which has become an important part of the funeral.