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 have seen people who were simply smashed to pieces or ripped to shreds, literally, in an instant.
That’s how I would explain it. Enough of you, ypur body and central nervous system, gets destroyed at once and you are gone. Bam.
You mentioned decapitation, but what about a bullet diagonally in ypur skull and out the other side, doing to your brain exactly what it does to ballistic gel? What about a car flying through the air and landing on your head and chest. Can a brain go without oxygen for a few minutes? Yes! But do you not assume that a tremendous shock would ensue when the spinal cord was ripped out by the roots? You’d at least be out cold while you actually faded away.
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