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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I think what most people mean is that the person lost consciousness immediately and never regained it before brain activity ceased, meaning they were never aware that they were in the process of dying, nor did they feel any pain. For all intents and purposes, they might as well have died instantly and that’s how it would have appeared both to them and to any outside observers.
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