Some are very energy hungry like your brain and heart and die within minutes.
Others have less demand and more food storage and can persist for hours, or even longer if it’s cold.
Once your heart stops all the oxygen and nutrition supply to the other cells stops too so they can only live off whatever they’ve kept stored.
Most of your cells don’t store much and have no way to get more, and so can’t survive on their own for very long.
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