Is it really possible for someone to drown twice?

Answer 1

Seeing as how the definition of drowning is death caused by suffocation when a liquid causes interruption of the body's absorption of oxygen from the air leading to asphyxia, then no, because you cannot die twice. The primary cause of death in these cases is hypoxia and acidosis leading to cardiac arrest.

Near drowning is the survival of a drowning event involving unconsciousness or water inhalation and can lead to serious secondary complications, including death, after the event.

Thus according to the dictionary defintion you can NEARLY drown more than once but you can only drown once.

However, lifeguarding intorduces rescuers to differing levels of drowning so by the ARC definition you can be active or passively drowning and this can occur multiple times. Active drowning becomes passive drowning and is followed by drowning, in that order. A victim of drowning dies from it. A victim of near drowning does not.

Hope that was helpful!

Answer 2

If the youngster drowned and then was revived thanks to the icey water preserving the body until the resusitation, the person could subsequently drowned again if they were stupid enough to risk the water again.

Answer 3

no because if you were to drown you would be dead so you would not be able to frown again

Answer 4

umm... if they have multiple lives i guess...