Death

[JessT]

how many people die in one year...bad question i know but i would realy like to know (i'm doing a class assignment)
How long does it take to die in some accidents?
how much can be lost before you will die?
Is it scary when you know when you are going to die??

[Sammi]

how many people die in one year...bad question i know but i would realy like to know (i'm doing a class assignment)
Depends on the place. Look up death stats for the place in question.

How long does it take to die in some accidents?
Depends on the accident. Falling off a twenty-story building, for instance, would be instantaneous. Unless you are a cat or something smaller (an ant would walk away unscathed due to having extremely little mass.)

how much can be lost before you will die?
You can lose all your money, your lover(s), your family, your good name, your house, your prize Alf doll, all without dying. You could also lose all your limbs and a few of your internal organs. You'll go into a diabetic coma without your pancreas and be poisoned without your kidneys, but as long as you have a stomach, heart, lungs and cerebellum, you remain alive (you can even have the stomach taken out, but instead of a month to die it will take you a week.)

Is it scary when you know when you are going to die??
Some people rather like it, I think. Look at the suicide statistics. I can't speak for myself. I only almost died a handful of times, and all of those times I was thinking more about my asthma or the bricks my face was planted in than any actual event of death which may or may not occur.

[vindemiatrix]

Is it scary when you know when you are going to die??

Depends on the person, really. I'm not scared of death. I'm not even scared of dying painfully yet, because I've never done it and I find it hard to be scared of things I've never done. I mean, how do you know to be scared? *blink*

Some people are terrified of death, though, and knowing they'll die will drive them bonkers, possibly because they're a bit wiser than I am. However, there's usually a kind of acceptance at the end.

For the other questions, Sammi's answers are cooler than anything I'd say.

[AXJ]

The first time I was stuck in a situation that I was pretty sure could result in my death, I can attest that it was scary as hell. And I'm not generally a 'fraidy cat.

[Emperor]

well, i been dead before. a few times. clincially speaking.

it not so bad, and i don't fear death, i like to look at death like a philsophier and take it as nothing.

to die like socrates on hemlock would be a very noble death in a way, to die for your princiaples and to accept that no matter what we have free will and are never slaves to anything.

would i be scared, probaly, but then again, depends on my mind frame, i mean sometimes i think existence would be better with my demise.

i mean if a bus is coming i still jump out of the way, thus far. but i just musing logically.

if you are afraid to die, that is fine, that jjust shows how much you want to live, and i respect that.

hitchhiker guide on dying: if you about to die, here is some advice to help you deal with it. think about how nice a life you had up to now, hopwever if you haven't had a nice life up until now, which given your ptresent sistuation is more lijkely, think about how glad you'll be when it's all be over.

[pkgirl]

I have technically died twice, one throught strangulation and the other through drwoning, but i was revived. so yeh, but it was scary while it was happening.

[limegreen19]

I have never nearly died. I have never even had stiches! :(


The worst injury that ever happened to me was when my dad dropped me on my head when I was a baby. I had a minor concussion from that. (Usually when I tell this story, someone says "Well, that explains a lot.")