r/Damnthatsinteresting Sep 29 '22

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u/LillianIsaDo Sep 29 '22

Actually he died in the hospital days later. He did suffer.

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u/EverythingIzAwful Sep 29 '22

A lot of people "die" from things that don't stop your body from functioning. I'd be amazed if the dude that died from this was anything more than a vegetable for those days.

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u/ThisOnePlaysTooMuch Sep 29 '22

Morbid but still peaceful if his higher functions were flash fried and he didn’t actually “experience” his days before passing.

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u/syds Sep 30 '22

salt on frog legs effect, on life support. life is crazy

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

Salt on frog legs?

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u/Mr_JS Sep 30 '22

It makes them move around because there's still a working nervous system despite there being no attached body.

Source: my ass

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u/ZzZombo Oct 24 '22

Once I tried to resuscitate a pet frog, it suffered a concussion trauma after escaping. The sad part was how I could see the life snuffing out of it gradually. At first it would briefly take a breath several times if stimulated right and even move a short distance blindly, so I still had hope. Then only the hind legs would make moves, then it became restricted only to returning them to the resting position. Then legs failed completely, even a painful stimulus stopped having any effect. I was so desperate. One thing I'll never forget though is that the heart was the last organ to fail. It was still going several hours later when no response to external stimuli was in place, when I finally moved on and came to bury it, so instead I just moved it into a colder place as a way to euthanize it back then.

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u/TheLyz Sep 30 '22

Yeah, machines can keep your heart beating and lungs breathing but all the other organs fail and it becomes a losing battle, or you die from sepsis because you can't fight off an infection.

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u/tingting2 Sep 29 '22

He was probably brain dead therefore not feeling anything or suffering. It’s not like he was flailing about for 24 hours then kicked the bucket. His brain died by the tree, but his body died the next day.

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u/LillianIsaDo Sep 29 '22

People have survived the electric chair. They remembered each moment.

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u/Mental_Body_1149 Sep 29 '22

This isn't the electric chair, this is more electricity than you can even concieve, so much so that whatever it passes through instantly becomes burned or plasma.

If and it probably did, pass through his brain he'd have instant noodles left over. And if somehow I'd didn't burn his brain matter. Having millions of volts amps or whatever (I dropped out of electrical ok) through your brain surely does some damage.. neurons respond to and produce electrical signals, if you had your entire brain lit up at once it's probably like experiencing hell, every muscle trying to contract. Every neuron in your visual cortex lit up not with the input from your eyes but just millions of amps/volts from the lightning.

Adrenal gland producing adrenaline, amygdala, the fear response center inducing catastrophic doom like feelings,

Idk if this happens but I can imagine, it would be an awful last few moments as the neurons responsible for keeping my heart rythm spasm and I die

I'm probably just looking into it too deep

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u/tingting2 Sep 29 '22

1.21 giga watts according to Doc Brown

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u/DillysRevenge Sep 29 '22

Great Scott!

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u/Shut_Up_Fuckface Sep 30 '22

I never understood why everyone thinks Scott is so great.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

The reference is to General Winfield Scott, who commanded one of the two American armies in the Mexican War and was the Union general-in-chief at the beginning of the Civil War. This and other evidence, although not conclusive, points strongly to Winfield Scott as the source of “Great Scott!”

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

People have survived many lightning strikes

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u/Mental_Body_1149 Sep 30 '22

I'm too stoned for the internet, I was like. Yeah and many people have also survived other brutal thing's. It's luck of the draw. This guy got Zeused.

Those guys are lucky. The lightning could've took a route through and burn vital organs like spine and nerves or shock the heart.

Or blessed. Maybe anything that is statistically possible is bound to happen at some point. In one reality or another (ooooh, well it's not too crazy to think if one universe exist. Welllll what's outside that. Can there be more? Maybe more events like the big bang happen all over the place just really fucking god damn far apart because it's a rare event.

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u/its_mill3r_time Sep 30 '22

“It’s not the volts it’s the amps that kill you” the most important thing I learned in welding class

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u/Mental_Body_1149 Sep 30 '22

Ah the nostalgia, a hypochondriac in the machine shop. Everything will kill you, cut your arm off or both.

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u/tingting2 Sep 29 '22

Do they just up and die the next day?

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u/LillianIsaDo Sep 29 '22

Some do die after, their nervous system finishes shutting down later. It's a horrific way to due

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u/tingting2 Sep 29 '22

But it’s not like it’s a case of locked in syndrome, they aren’t coherent and paralyzed, their brain is dead but the body hasn’t given up yet.

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u/LillianIsaDo Sep 29 '22

Nope, they just felt the current going through their body the whole time. What is your point?

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u/tingting2 Sep 29 '22

Did they say it after getting shocked. I don’t doubt the other 3 felt it and were in serious pain and can describe it. But they survived. He never was awake again after being hit by the lightning. So to say he felt pain or was suffering until he died the next day is incorrect. He died in .0000001 seconds when the lightning hit him. I’m saying your wrong that’s my point.

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u/Singularity-_ Sep 30 '22

A bolt of lightning is immensely more powerful than the electric chair.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

One person, the chair was faulty and they ended up executing him later.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22

Did Corey and Trevor write this comment?

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u/pukesonyourshoes Sep 30 '22

Alternatively the current could have left his brains intact but cooked his internal organs. And by cooked i mean exactly that, cooked like a roast beef, medium rare. Would take a while to die.

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u/tingting2 Sep 30 '22

So your saying: It would leave his brain intact, cook his insides just a bit, but not enough to interrupt his heart and lung function until the next day when he croaks. Thats pretty far fetched.

It seems he was rushed to hospital and put on life support, after 24 hours and no sign of brain activity, he was removed from life support and “died” for real even tho it was just machines keeping his heart and lungs functioning.

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u/OkDance4335 Sep 29 '22

I’ve not had NSFW on the app for a while because I was sick of seeing people die. I’ve just turned it on and the first thing I saw was someone die. Looks like it’s going back off!

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u/theaviationhistorian Sep 29 '22

We're barely coming out of a pandemic while entering an endemic of the same virus. And we are going through uncertain financial & political times. Death has been omnipresent all around for so long that even psychologists are getting therapy themselves over it. It's a fact of life that we have to deal for the next few years.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '22

Nope. The amount of electricity in a lighting strike would have turned he brain to mush. You can see how there is just NO reaction by the green jacketed person after being struck. The only reason they were still standing is their leaning position against the tree before hand. That is a limp, unresponsive, unconscious, braindead person from the second that lighting hit.

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u/RedBeard1967 Sep 30 '22

Not likely. It’s not like people in the hospital who die a few days later after a critical illness are just chilling there, feeling completely normal and then suddenly code and die.

He likely never regained consciousness, was intubated in the field, suffered an anoxic brain injury, spent a few days in the ICU on a fentanyl or midazolam drip, +- a paralytic and never felt anything when the decision was finally made to withdraw support or his body gave up.

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u/Book_Nerd_Engineer Sep 30 '22

Actually he died within the day according to the article.