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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You’re not going to be conscious for more than a few seconds if your head is cut off.
And after that, it’s pretty immaterial when exactly when you suffer brain death because you’ve got what are called “injuries inconsistent with life”….meaning no doctor is going to put you back together again.
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