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What Happens To You Just Before You Die

Part 1

By KeepMakingProgressPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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First, we'll start with what happens to your body based on how you died. First, let's talk about drowning. This is a very unpleasant death, characterized by the inability to breathe, as a result of which you die under water. What's happening is that your mouth is fighting under the surface. You panic and may start sucking or sucking water. This can cause laryngospasm, which occurs when the vocal cords close and block the airway in an attempt to protect the lungs. When this happens, you cannot call for help. Therefore, drowning is mainly a silent death. When not enough oxygen reaches the tissues of the body, a condition called hypoxia occurs. You lose consciousness and your airways relax and fill your lungs with water. Prolonged lack of air can lead to cardiac arrest and brain damage, ultimately leading to death. In a bad way, so if you can't swim, a life jacket is highly recommended. Or put an inflatable pool toy under you.

Then, let's talk about dying from hypothermia, a drop in your core temperature to a dangerous level that causes you to shiver violently. After prolonged exposure to freezing temperatures, your body's functions begin to slow down, including your breathing, heart and metabolism. Then you will pass out before you die. Examples of such deaths include what happened to Jack in the movie Titanic. Spoiler alert, we see him transform into a human before dramatically plunging into the dark depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Rose let him go right after he said he didn't want to. Is that so? We feel compelled to add that the jack can easily be mounted on a door used as a float. He just doesn't try hard enough. Either way, you don't just want to die in icy water. Not a fun way to do it, especially if you hate the cold.

Burning to death, on the contrary, must be a very horrible way to die. Sometimes when people were burned at the stake in the Dark Ages, they died of carbon monoxide poisoning before the flames consumed them completely. This happens when you inhale too much carbon. It's definitely not a convenient way to do it. It was actually very painful! However, carbon monoxide poisoning is considered a merciful death compared to the feeling of fire melting your flesh. A human body can burn for hours, but if you're lucky, you'll be dead when the dermis breaks. The dermis, if you don't know, is the thick layer of skin below the epidermis, the thin outer layer of your skin. Sometimes a burn can damage the nerves so much that pain is no longer felt. However, you will most likely die before you realize you are no longer in pain. The initial pain from a live burn can also be so severe that some people can die of significant shock when blood pressure drops to the point where vital organs can no longer function. Suffocation from smoke and heatstroke can also lead to death before the flames themselves can do their job. In heat stroke, your brain and other vital organs swell, which can be fatal if left untreated.

Let's look at what could happen psychologically before you pass away now that we've discussed some of the most extreme, horrifying, and morbid elements of physical causes of death and what occurs to the body before dying. Apart from the obvious panic you could feel if you are aware of what is happening to you, that is what we mean. This is a significant subject since many people assert bizarre and unusual events occurred in the brief seconds before passing away.

Dr. Cameron Shaw, a neurologist, believes he has a perfect understanding of what happens to humans 30 seconds before we encounter the Grim Reaper. He examined a woman's brain after her death to learn what had happened. What he discovered was terrible. We first, he claims, lose our self-worth. According to reports, this is because the blood supply is drawn from the bottom and the brain often dies from the top down. As a result, when the brain is worn out, blood starts to leak first from the prefrontal cortex, which controls personality, decision-making, personality traits, and social conduct. This means that during the first 10 to 20 seconds of the 30-second countdown to death, our sense of humor, self-worth, and ability to plan ahead start to deteriorate. (continue to the part 2)

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