The article discusses the inevitability of death and spotlight the painful ways individuals may die, particularly focusing on burning alive, rapid decompression in divers, and severe radiation exposure. Burning alive is noted as one of the most agonizing deaths, causing not just immediate physical damage but also lethal smoke inhalation, which accounts for the majority of fire-related fatalities. The article indicates that understanding these brutal ends is part of a broader discourse on mortality and the human experience.
Being burned alive typically causes death in just a few minutes. However, those few minutes are torturous. Fire causes soft tissues to contract, leading to skin tearing off in layers, starting with the outermost layer, the epidermis.
The eyes may also boil, causing blindness. Often, however, people being burned alive typically die from smoke inhalation. In fact, smoke inhalation is responsible for about eight in 10 fire-related deaths.
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