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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If you die while you're laying out in the sun, will your body get a sunburn?

Is a sunburn a biological process that wouldn't happen if you weren't alive, or is it the skin actually "burning"?
gpt
Not exactly. Your body almost never dies on a cellular level all at once. So your skin would turn red as still capillaries burst and the epidermis would eventually die as no living person is seeking shade. The remaining dermis gets no supplies from the blood stream and either dies of starvation, heat damage, or asphyxiation; whichever comes first. So no peeling, but you might find some blisters and a lot of drying out like the beginning of mummification.