What happens when you are deprived of fresh air, water, adn food, besides dying. What happens before you die?

Answer 1

jo,

A question with a history, perhaps? I have realized that people usually are not afraid of death. We're afraid of dying.

Each of your scenarios will have a different effect on us. Depending on how we are deprived of air--whether being strangled or locked in an airtight room--we will experience the approach of death a little differently. Strangling is normally a bit violent, so we struggle against it, afraid and deperate, then grow weaker and pass out. In an airtight room, the air becomes hard to breathe, we breathe faster and faster, until we grow weaker, slow down, and pass out. Have you ever taken one breath out of a helium balloon? If you take two without taking any air in between--I found this out the hard way--you'll become dizzy and pass out. Don't do this standing up, you'll probably hurt yourself, because it happens faster than you think it will.

Water is a bit harder. It can take two weeks to die from thirst, and along the way we can become very desperate. The tongue swells, the lips crack, the mouth dries out completely, and you'd do almost anything for a drink of water. Some have even seemed to observers to go insane. I have gone three days without water, and it was no fun. I was tired yet fidgety and nervous, and looking for a drink just about anyplace. The desire for a drink can be just about overpowering. If it had gone on, I would have been pretty desperate, angry, terribly uncomfortable, then I would have grown weak and passed out.

Starving takes even longer, a month or even more for some people. During that time food is your central thought, until close to the end, when the hard hunger ends. Then we grow cold, become weak, lethargic, and uncaring, and just wait for death.

It's funny, really, to think about this. I had been having some fainting spells for over a couple of years. "Vasovagal events" I thought, and didn't pay much mind to them. I would feel really strange, then become dizzy. I'd have about thirty seconds warning to lie down, and then I'd faint. Several times I took my pulse as I was passing out, and for a few seconds, I couldn't feel it. It was an odd sensation, for we are never without a heatbeat, but I was. Missing your pulse feels weird.

When my doctor caught one of these episodes on an ekg, he told me to get to the hospital immediately. My heart was stopping for twenty to thirty seconds at a time, and "it doesn't have to restart," he said. For half a minute I was a corpse.

Odd, that, dying twenty seconds at a time. There wasn't much to it, really. Much less than I had imagined.

Yet it has left me with a greater desire to help and to do good than I have ever had before. I realize more how important people are, friends are, and good is. There is more beauty than I thought in this world. You're part of that.

Be careful about what you decide from asking this question. Dying isn't that big a deal, but life is. If death is that easy, then life needs protecting, and it's worth it.

Answer 2

If you'll get all three at the same time, lack of oxygen will kill you first... basically you will start gasping for air, then you'll become lightheaded and eventually you will drift into a coma (fall asleep - as peacefully as it may sound); unless you're drowning, then it all will happen in a matter of 3-4 minutes

If you'll have no water, you will slowly stop urinating and sweating, your mouth will be dry, then you will get lightheaded, you may get hallucinations until you'll fall, slip into a coma

Of all three, you can live longest without the food, even up to two weeks depending on your original body mass. Similar process as with lack of water, you may get cramps, muscle pains, lightheadedness, hallucinations, nausea, eventually you'll fall asleep and never wake up.

Don't try this at home, or any other place :)

Answer 3

Three things sustain us; water, food, and fresh air. Of course we cannot get by for long if even one of these essentials is missing.

A conscious person would feel it (dehydration). They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucous membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water.

Without good food we could only last two or three weeks.

Without water, we would die in a matter of days.

BUT..........Without fresh air, we could not live more than a few minutes. LACK OF OXYGEN WOULD BE THEIR DEMISE!!!!!!!!!

Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death."
For those of you who think starvation and dehydration is painless and peaceful -- why not try it? Just for the weekend.

Air that's the fastest one of all, asphyxiation in minutes. I would choose this one and not to suffer any longer than I had to!

Answer 4

Without air, you will not be able to create more energy to run the basic life functions of your body. Your cells need oxygen to perform the crazy chemical reactions to create this energy that in turn fuels your muscle movement, nervous system, endocrine system, etc. Without water, you'd cause your electrolyte concentrations to be off balance and this in turn is very dangerous. And without food, your cells would not be able to, once again, create energy that is very vital to life. Your cells take the nutrients from the food you eat and turn it into energy along with oxygen. Your whole body would stop functioning.

Answer 5

No one knows for sure unless they've been through this. I doubt you can get a dead person to answer this for you. Guess you'll just have to take the word of people who answer this question. But they really don't know the answer.

Answer 6

Give me about 5 minutes to get back to you,

I gotta go ask the guy I got tied up in my basement.

Answer 7

Your organs begin to fail. Dehydration is supposed to be quite painful. You would probably go to sleep because severe dehydration causes you to be sleepy. This is what would kill you first.

Answer 8

You get afraid, & review your life.

You gasp for air, then fall "asleep".

Then you keel over dead. The End.

Answer 9

Muscle spasms, lose of sight, lose of consciousness, and ofcourse mild to severe pain.

Answer 10

you really start craving air water and food. Its really weird, try it sometime