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What Happens After Death, a free science course on Tomo

What Happens After Death

Like Duolingo, but for What Happens After Death. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.

For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.

A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Biological Transition and The Human Response. It starts from scratch.

11 bite-size levelsAbout 5 minutes each

Free forever · No credit card · iPhone & Android

Mortie the Moth, the guide who teaches the What Happens After Death course
What Happens After Death
with Mortie the Moth
11
Levels
2
Sections
5
Min/day
What you'll learn

Key ideas in What Happens After Death

  • Different organs and cells die at different rates
  • Clinical death precedes biological death
  • The brain can function for several minutes without a heartbeat
  • Residual oxygen supports brief neural activity
  • Death is a gradual biological transition
  • Recognizing the window of brain activity post-cardiac arrest
  • Hearing is the most resilient sense during the dying process
  • Understanding that death is a gradual biological transition
  • The body stops generating internal metabolic heat
  • Auditory pathways remain active even when sight and touch have faded
  • Body temperature drops steadily to reach equilibrium with the environment
  • Understanding the immediate thermal shift after death
  • Muscles lose all tension and go limp immediately after death
  • Total relaxation (flaccidity) happens before the chemical changes that cause stiffening
  • Distinguishing the initial state of muscles after death
  • Cellular enzymes are released when cells die
Why not just Google it

You've tried the other tabs

Wikipedia

Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.

YouTube

You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.

ChatGPT

One answer, then back to scrolling.

Online courses

Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.

Tomo gives What Happens After Death the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.

Try a question

Here's what playing it feels like

A real question from this course. Take your best guess.

The Fading Biological Spark

Which stage of the transition occurs first when a person's heart stops beating?

Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.

Course map

Where What Happens After Death takes you

Explore the biological, environmental, and cultural journey that begins when life ends. Understand the science of the body's transition and how we preserve legacies.

  1. 1

    The Biological Transition

    • The First Few Minutes
    • Nature's Recycling System
  2. 2

    The Human Response

    • Rituals and Body Care
    • The Digital and Social Afterlife

2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.

How it's taught

You pick the voice

This course
The Professor

What Happens After Death is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.

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