How does hitting your head kill you? (Specifically those that hit their head and are immediately dead etc). What causes this to happen and how?

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How does hitting your head kill you? (Specifically those that hit their head and are immediately dead etc). What causes this to happen and how?

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One of two ways:

1: They break their neck hard enough to sever connections between their brain and things keeping them alive like their lungs and heart.

2: They slam their skull so hard that their squishy brain “keeps going” and it collides with the inside of their skull hard enough to cause the brain to fail, like when someone is in a car crash without their seat belt and are killed when they’re sent flying into the windshield when the car suddenly stops. If the hit is *really* hard it can just simply break through the skull and destroy the brain directly.