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Many gases produce in body of human. When the man die the water enter the human body and there is no way for air to diffuse out of the human body .As the gasesare lighter so they try to diffuse out of the water due to this the dead body floats on water

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Gases that are lighter than the water build up in a dead body after several days, causing it to eventually float.

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