What happens when people die in Dragon Ball?

[TheUltimateNinja]

Now, in real life we just decompose and rot away into nothing, but in DB apparently the bodies of heroes are transported directly to the afterlife. What about the bodies of regular dudes?

[Lek]

According to Dragon Ball, they just rot as well. Bulma had capsules prepared to cool the bodies of Kuririn, Muten Roshi and so on. They explained that they needed to keep the bodies fresh for one year, so that they could be properly revived.

[TheUltimateNinja]

According to Dragon Ball, they just rot as well. Bulma had capsules prepared to cool the bodies of Kuririn, Muten Roshi and so on. They explained that they needed to keep the bodies fresh for one year, so that they could be properly revived.

Why didn't Kami send their bodies to the afterlife to train like Goku? Surely it would have been useful to have them power up considering Piccolo was still around.

[Ki Breaker]

According to Dragon Ball, they just rot as well. Bulma had capsules prepared to cool the bodies of Kuririn, Muten Roshi and so on. They explained that they needed to keep the bodies fresh for one year, so that they could be properly revived.

Why didn't Kami send their bodies to the afterlife to train like Goku? Surely it would have been useful to have them power up considering Piccolo was still around.

Opportunity of training in the afterlife is supposed to be a rare thing..
Even getting goku to train was a big thing for kami

[nickzambuto]

Only a warrior who dies defending their planet will be allowed to keep their body in the afterlife and train for eternity.

Muten Roshi, Chiaotzu and arguably Krillin all died defending their planet, but when killed by a Mazoku, your spirit cannot pass on and will wander the earth for eternity.

If you just die a normal death then your body will remain on earth and decompose while your spirit goes to either heaven or hell. In hell it gets cleansed and eventually you are reincarnated, I don't know if the same is true for heaven in DB.

[Saturnine]

According to Dragon Ball, they just rot as well. Bulma had capsules prepared to cool the bodies of Kuririn, Muten Roshi and so on. They explained that they needed to keep the bodies fresh for one year, so that they could be properly revived.

Why didn't Kami send their bodies to the afterlife to train like Goku? Surely it would have been useful to have them power up considering Piccolo was still around.

They hadn't even met Kami at that point yet, much less proven themselves to him.

[Ozotto]

Depends on the continuity.

The anime and manga depict it differently.

Also there's differences between Toei's filler and the rest of the anime.

Super also has its retcon of Heaven and Hell.

[floofychan333]

Their bodies probably decompose like ours do but their souls live on in the Other World.

[swimtrunks]

I thought I remembered Goku's body fading away after he died. Or I'm guessing that was done by Kami or whoever so he could have his body in afterworld.

[Gog]

They rot away as usual. Hell even the bodies of hero's in dragon ball follow the same rule as well. They just get the bonus of gaining another body in the after life.

[Nejishiki]

I thought I remembered Goku's body fading away after he died. Or I'm guessing that was done by Kami or whoever so he could have his body in afterworld.

God took Goku's body, yes. Goku needed a physical form to cross the Serpent Road & train with Kaio.