You typically see people deteriorating and stop breathing or fall into a state of unconsciousness – this seems steady. But when you read of freak accidents like being decapitated internally (the spinal cord detaching from the head), how do you just die instantly? If the brain can survive 6 minutes without oxygen until pronounced brain dead…how does someone just die? Even if your heart stops beating there and then, how do you just drop dead?
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It means somebody was dead before their brain could register what has happened to them. If someone dies in a crash and there is no soot found in their airway, it’s fair to assume they died on impact. This is especially true if the brain is involved.
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