Three minutes without oxygen and you're dead. Fly too close to that time and your brain's toast.
Three days without water and you're done. I always wondered why
Walter White
and
Jesse Pinkman
didn't just dehydrate their first murder to death?
Most people can go about 2 months without food.
After that everything becomes gray.
Smoking. It kills you, but when? Too many factors in play. Some people live past 100 smoking. No definitive answer.
Same with drinking.
Then there's the idea of people dying, walking around as NPC corpses. What kind of numbers do we have there? How many days of not doing what? When does someone die spiritually? Can one come back from a spiritual death? If so then why would it be called a spiritual death? Probably would just call it a spiritual depression.
Nelson Mandela
spent 27 years in prison and came out stronger. People on
wall street
lost millions after being accustomed to a penthouse and killed themselves. Two people at the cafe are both on
Macbook Pro
s. One finds meaning in that portal, the other can't wait to get back to their family.
Don't steal, don't lift 20 years of schoolin' and they put you on the day shift Look out kid, they keep it all hid
Speaking as a paramedic I'm not going to agree on the three minutes. I've seen patients survive after more than 10 minutes (mostly the heart of those stopped somewhere cold [frozen lake, or just in the winter months]). It all depends on way to many factors :)
Fascinating insight. So in that case do you think the cold slowed down the brain metabolism enough to prevent it from running out of energy or something?
therealbrandonwilson have you heard? That people are looking into slowing down the brain metabolism to the point where it can go very long ( i think hours if i remember correctly) without oxygen.
You might wonder why they're doing that. It's because they think such interaction might lead to being able to preserve people's brains into the future.
I've not heard of it for the living, but cryogenics is a way to preserve the dead until such time when we have the technology to revive them. I agree with phaidenbauer that there are many cases where people have survived in deep cold without oxygen for far longer than one can survive under normal circumstances. I haven't studied the mechanism behind this.
As far as I know, it has to do with metabolism. I also think many brain surgeries are down with a cooled down body nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_hypothermic_circulatory_arrest
You might wonder why they're doing that. It's because they think such interaction might lead to being able to preserve people's brains into the future.