Can people really die from spontaneous combustion?
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Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is the alleged process of a human body catching fire as a result of heat generated by internal chemical or nuclear action. While no one has ever witnessed SHC, several deaths involving fire have been attributed to SHC by investigators and storytellers
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OH CAN IT EVER. It's call blue-flaming or torqing. You lay on you back and throw your legs back over your head as far as you can. Hold a lighter (not a match) near the butt-opening. If you get too close you create some risk. Build up a doozy and let 'er rip while the lighter is going. You have to exhaust the whole thing, or else you risk bringing some of the fire back inside of you while your butt-opening is still, well, open. So push it all out. Some of the flames can get huge. Just watch out for the "banana torq". It wraps around and burns bad things.
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it is not necessarly the heat as it is dehydration that causes a person to pass out.   a person can tolerate high heat for a short period of time with proper hydration.   Without hydration and the ability to cool one's body down to normal body temp a person can die......No note i said "Can tolerat high heat for SHORT PERIODS OF TIME."
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You mean there is a good way to die??!! Is that an oxymoron? I noticed that the concensus is " In your sleep". Actually I think a lethal arrythmia would be my guess, you know something like V-tach or  V-fib. You would  just pass out and never wake up.
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Inhaling bleach and ammonia mixture could case death. Checking on the symptons now...\nmostly respiratory since the two combined form a new chemical vapor that causes corrosion and damaged cells in the lungs
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I'm not sure about the cancer, though I may ahve heard the notion before... I think the skepticism came from the discovery that over time and excessive use the lining of teflon cookwear can - through high temperatures - begin to change into gases and thus can be inhaled. I'm not sure how much holds true but that's what I've heard.
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No it is not possible.  There have been studies done that at the exact moment you sneeze, all other brain function ceases.  You have no brain waves, no heartbeat and the only breathing that occurs is the air that is forced out of your lungs.  For a split second, you are dead.  Just a bit of usless trivia I picked up a few years back.
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I doubt (but don't know) that anyone has died from smoking from a hookah.  I'm sure there are some people that are allergic to it, and too much of anything can have bad effects.  I suggest doing an internet search.  : )
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On June 3, the bodies of two college students were found in a giant helium balloon in Florida. The week before, a 10-year-old in New Jersey collapsed at a birthday party after sucking helium from a balloon. Is helium really that dangerous?\n\nIt can be. Breathing in pure helium deprives the body of oxygen, as if you were holding your breath. If you couldn't breathe at all, you'd start to die in minutes—as soon as your body exhausted the supply of oxygen stored in the blood. But helium speeds up this process: When the gas fills your lungs, it creates a diffusion gradient that washes out the oxygen. In other words, each breath of helium you take sucks more oxygen out of your system. After inhaling helium, the body's oxygen level can plummet to a hazardous level in a matter of seconds.\n\nYou don't have to worry about fatal asphyxiation if you're sucking from a helium balloon at a party. At worst you'll keep going until you get lightheaded and pass out—at which point you'll stop inhaling helium and your body's oxygen levels will return to normal. Of more concern is the possibility that you'll hurt yourself when you fall down. (The boy in New Jersey bumped his head and needed three stitches.) It's far more dangerous to suck helium out of a pressurized tank: If the gas comes in too quickly, your lungs might burst and hemorrhage.\n\nOf course you're putting yourself in grave danger anytime you climb inside a giant helium balloon. The college kids in Florida weren't the first to attempt this stunt. In 2002, a case report from a Japanese medical journal described a similar episode: A drunken adolescent poked his head into an advertising balloon and asphyxiated. Several authors have also reported cases of suicide by helium inhalation. \n\nDeath by helium still seems to be quite rare. U.S. Poison Control Centers reported only two fatalities between 2000 and 2004. There's still an outcry from concerned parents whenever helium inhalation makes its way into popular culture. Federal Express had to pull a commercial that depicted the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz sucking balloons to keep their voices at a high pitch. Geoffrey, the Toys "R" Us giraffe, got a slap on the hoof for doing the same. \n\nAt the same time, doctors use a mixture of helium and oxygen (called "heliox") to help patients with upper-respiratory blockages. The treatment works because the helium is a very light gas, and it's easier to push it through an obstructed airway. (We get funny voices when we inhale helium because the lighter gas changes the resonant frequencies of our vocal tract.*)
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death is possible--I think your friend is playing with fire.
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No.   the amount of methane gas produced by human flatulance would not be suffucient to suffocate them.   IN fact a television show called Mythbusters did an episode  concerning that sort of thing and it was proven that it isn't possible for a person to produce enough gas even over an extended period (several hours) to be lethal.
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Your own fiery death.
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normally blood rushing to the BRAIN can cause problems, but you dont have to worry at all.....you are unlikely to die  despite lots of blood in your body.....Get the message? if you didnt, just proves my point doesnt it...
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Alot, mostly from dehydration or a heart attack or stroke. I don't think hospitals have released official numbers but its not uncommon where I live to hear of someone dying from it.
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The only person I have ever seen die was a motorcyclist in Chicago. He & a friend were trying to beat the train. Friend 1 (who had a helmet on) swerved around those train sticks (what the heck are they called?) and made it past. Friend 2 (who didn't have a helmet) did the same but SMACK right into the train. He was thrown back and fell onto the ground while his head drained the blood out of it. He died almost instantly. \n\nI was about 9 yrs. old and traumatized for life!
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All I can tellya from having watched a person die from emphysema is the effects are first inconvenient, then horrible, then torturous.  This person dragged an oxygen tank everywhere  for ten years then died a horrible slow painful death.  The effects are that the lungs can no longer absorb oxygen because they become like coral reefs.  The skin, glands, organs, bones, suffer.  The person ages doubly fast.  When I see young people smoking, I want to suggest they just take the quick approach and jump off a cliff, but instead, I patiently walk on.
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The resistance from the human body creates heat, which burns tissue. The cause of death, though, is because a surge of electricity induces ventricular fibulation in the heart. The heart muscle cells begin to spasm out of unison, so that the heart cannot beat coherently. The person dies because there is no blood being pumped to their brain.