when you die from blood loss, do you feel like you are dying from not being able to breathe? Because your lungs are breathing but you’re not getting oxygen where it needs to go, would it feel something like suffocating?

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when you die from blood loss, do you feel like you are dying from not being able to breathe? Because your lungs are breathing but you’re not getting oxygen where it needs to go, would it feel something like suffocating?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I’m by no means an expert, but I’m going to say not exactly. A normal feeling of suffocation is the direct result of the lungs sensing a lack of air (specifically nitrogen). If you’re bleeding out, oxygen isn’t getting to your brain, so you’ll feel symptoms like extreme dizziness and whatnot. But the crushing feeling in your chest would be present only if nitrogen gas wasn’t entering your lungs, as lungs don’t have the ability to sense a lack of oxygen.