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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I’ve actually been through this, and you would be unconscious before you died. However, the period up until you pass out – though short – is utterly terrifying.
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However blood loss leads to cold feelings then passing out and ultimately the long sleep.
However we cannot know for sure as those who have died from blood loss cannot share their information with us anymore.
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Probably just a curious mind wondering, but my mom brain can’t help itself.
The body feels suffocation from CO2 buildup rather than a lack of oxygen, so dying from blood loss wouldn’t cause that feeling because it’s not reacting to a lack of oxygen.
My understanding (as not a medical professional) is blood loss is relatively painless on its own, it makes you sleepy until you just fall asleep and die (if not saved).
When you die from blood loss, you’d lose consciousness long before.
The feeling that makes you gasp for air is *not* due to lack of oxygen: it is due to excess CO2. So even though you’d be lacking oxygen on a whole-body scale, your CO2 levels would theoretically be normal so you wouldn’t feel like you were suffocating.
Most likely, you’d gradually drift into unconsciousness and black out as the brain gets less and less oxygen
I presume that the sensation of breathing just arises from lungs inhaling *something*, not necessarily air. Think about it – you could breathe an odorless, toxic fume like carbon monoxide, and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. Until you fall unconscious and die, that is.
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