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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The person has been put into a state where it is unclear if they are living anymore (unresponsive to external stimulus) and main body functions have stopped (no breathing or heartbeat).
If your head is chopped off, there is some implication the person might still be alive/awake for a short while, but it’s not 100% known what they experienced.
“They died instantly” is often used to comfort grieving people even though it’s not 100% clear if they actually did die instantly.
True instant death would be something like having a 10 ton steel cube fall on you, rendering your entire body into liquid/paste.
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