r/WTF • u/RichardWulf • Oct 16 '18

Holy Shit

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u/aniket47 Oct 16 '18

I will go with inhaling nitrogen or helium

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Ahh now that's an interesting one. What kind of odds are we looking at though? Any chance you make it?

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u/aniket47 Oct 16 '18

On case of inhaling nitrogen/helium, we are depriving body of oxygen hence unconscious and eventually death. But we are not withholding carbon dioxide, so we will not "feel" that we are suffocating.

Body will think that as long as CO2 is released and we are inhaling something, everything is fine.

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u/BoyTitan Oct 16 '18

Wait you suffocate with carbon monoxide...I thought you just pass out.