If you die from carbon monoxide would it feel like you're drowning/suffocating?
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not drowning and suffocating...you will feel drowsy and come to a never ending sleep...\n\nCO, binds to the haemogloin in blood which is responsible for carry oxygen throughout the body...\n\nCO has higher affinity to Haemoglobin than O2, so it binds faster and blocks the binding of O2. its like someones smothering you but u cant feel it.
643832
I have nearly drowned twice, at first you control your panic, there was no time to get a breath,in moments it hurts because you are trying hard to keep the air you have there gripping life,your lungs want to expell it,your facial muscles cramp,lips burn,your mind races,your feet search out something anything solid.THEN you panic,your lungs lose and spent oxygen explodes from your lips.You take in water lots can't stop,a buzzing sound, you give up and take in more liquid death,unconsiousness blessedly over takes you,then suddenly your pulled from the cold nothingness and find you are ALIVE, thanks Dad!\n*That is what I remember
352165
You would get dizzy???
975198
I was electrocuted at work a while back.  I was passed out when they pulled me down from the wires.  But I never lost my train of thought, I feel that I experienced the whole thing in real time.\n\nWhen the current grabbed me I felt the life quickly drain from my body, it occoured to me that this is how I am to die, and then I was moving at high speed down a river of florescent light, inside a canyon with tall dark walls.  My body kept feeling like when you go over the falls on a roller coaster.  After a time the walls of the canyons started to have faces, and the faces turned into my fellow workers staring down at me in horror, thinking I was dead.   But I was pretty much OK except for some deep burns.\n\nCould have been just the dieing process.  But I feel that it was my choice to live or die during that time.  \n\nI would say my time since then is pure bonus time.  But really our entire lives are bonus time.   I don't understand anything more about death, but I did learn to appreciate each moment of life, each life giving breath.
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i hope and pray that i cant ever give you a answer from experiance. that said it would suck big time however it wouldnt be the first time someone died before i was ready for them to. so if it happens there is light at the end of the tunnel i have been in a simalar tunnel. it does end there might be a curve in the middle of it and it may be nighttime for why you cant see out so things always get better
158091
i wouldn't won't to be burned because that would hurt the most but drowning takes longer and more uncomfortable so i would say i would not want to die by being drowned
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Yes, but not for long. The person will pass out after a couple of breaths because of hyperoxia (too much oxygen in blood) and subsequent alkalosis (elevation of blood pH because of loss of CO2). You can achieve a similar effect by hyperventilating: taking fast and deep breaths for a minute or two - you will become dizzy and will faint if you don't stop (do NOT do it! ;)).\nBTW, oxygen tanks used as breathing aids are not 100% oxygen, far from that.
201813
I think you might die.
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Yes, you want to pass out, the room starts spinning and you feel very dizzy. your heart races, chest hurts, cant focus, your nervous and feel like if you ran you would feel better and you feel scared for no apparent reason. these are just a few of the symptoms. Its called the flight or fight response feelings.\n I use to suffer from them to the point of having agoraphobia. I am happy to say that I no longer have them anymore. That is without any types of drugs too. If you need any help please email me at dientzy1@yahoo.com in the subject line put panic attack so I will know what it is. I have helped alot of people.\nFirst know that just being afraid of them, makes them worse. The chemical that goes through your body at the time you have these is called epinephrine. This  same chemical that is produced in the fear state is what triggers panic attacks. This is why they seem to get worse. When you you have a panic attack you become afraid, so you are adding "fuel to the fire" so to say. By adding more epinephrine to your body by being afraid along with  the epinephrine that is going on with your panic attack. Normally our body's only produce this during needed times. Its called the flight or fight response (sympathetic nervous reasons). This chemical helps us when we need to flee something as if in a dangerous situation. But some of us have this chemical appear out of the blue in all types of settings. Even waking up with them out of sleep. Then we start to associate that situation we are in to causing the panic attack which makes us want to avoid that type of situation. When this becomes repetitive we may tend to avoid those situations. This is what can lead to agoraphobia, where you are afraid to even leave the house. Panic attacks are very common to type A personality's. It is our bodies way of saying "okay you wont slow down well I'm going to make you". I am not a doctor, but just a person who went through this just like you. The first step is to educate yourself where you can become dominant over the panic attacks. By doing this you learn not to fear the panic attacks which reduces the "fuel" on the fire. By eliminating the extra epinephrine your adding to your body you minimize the panic attack. After being able to learn to conquer them you will become free of them. And I was taught by  taking the opposite of a sympathetic nervous response is a para sympathetic response to help cure my panic attacks. I know these are some strange words but email and I can elaborate But until then know you are NOT going to die from them, although you feel sure that you are when your having them. And do know that you can be cured. Its just a matter of knowing how they are caused and whats happening to you while your having them is the first step in becoming free of them. Relaxation music and muscle exercises help until you can reach this point. There is hope and I can tell you more if you need to get additional information I tried to be brief but with still enough information to try to help right now. Take care! Email me if you need to. It helps to talk to someone who has been there.
804239
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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you would become very sick, very sick!! Hopefully you would end up in the hospital where they give you charcoal to slow down the medicine in your body and then you get to have a psych consult!! You would more than likely damage your liver, your heart and whatever else, that and you end up with really black colored mouth and lips from the charcoal and it does not come off easy....not to mention the oh so fun pumping of the stomach..and large bore IV's running full tilt....yeah rocking good time
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i never  have,but my mother did,,,,her heart stopped for 20 minutes.and they brought her back,2 hours later she was awake talking in the er,the doctors told us usually when someone is flat line that long they  go into coma and usually doesn't come out,but she did,,,,,she didn't remember  what happened,and the family had asked the doctors and nurses not to tell her she had basically died,well,leave it to someone,,,,one nurse came in and said ,well you did die!!.this upset my mother,cause she didn't remember what had happened,she  asked us allot of questions and so on,,we talked with her  about the  death thing,and she didn't recall anything,except the most beautiful feeling of peace,as she  got better(her heart) she started to have strange feelings,due to the fact she had died and came back,she said it wasn't natural,she believed she should have went on to  another place,she told us she just didn't feel the same anymore about being alive,,,she never said she wanted to die again or anything,just it wasn't normal for her to be here,a few weeks later she signed papers to do no resuscitate at all.she  felt if it was her time to go the doctors should just let nature take its course.well she lived on a bout 6 months.. she was doing really well,and then one night she just passed in her sleep..so now,we all feel  she has went back to  the  beautiful most peaceful place she once had found..
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Actually had no idea what it would feel like...I was hit by a tracer round from an AK-47. Felt like getting hit by a baseball bat.. watched it from about 150 yards to almost impact..was in SLOOO- motion. Cauterized itself (burned itself closed) Had just 1 drop of blood at both entry and exit Went numb almost immediately.Couldn't flex elbow either.
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Since none of us died, we don't know if that happens. It may be crazy survivor stories. Or it could be when your brain can't get enough oxygen, you may have synestatic experiences due to a hormone imbalance.
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I don't know the OSHA regulations, but as CO2 is not toxic, the human body can tolerate a lot of it. The only way CO2 can kill you is if it replaces oxygen to such an extent that you become oxygen deprived, in which case you will slowly suffocate. However, your body will alert you to this by making you feel tired, confused, and in great want of fresh air.
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The effects of carbon monoxide in parts per million are listed below:\n\n    100 ppm (0.01%) Slight headache in two to three hours\n    200 ppm (0.02%) Slight headache within two to three hours\n    400 ppm (0.04%) Frontal headache within one to two hours\n    800 ppm (0.08%) Dizziness, nausea, and convulsions within 45 minutes. Insensible within two hours.\n    1,600 ppm (0.16%) Headache, dizziness, and nausea within 20 minutes. Death in less than two hours.\n    3,200 ppm (0.32%) Headache, dizziness and nausea in five to ten minutes. Death within 30 minutes.\n    6,400 ppm (0.64%) Headache and dizziness in one to two minutes. Death in less than 20 minutes.\n    12,800 ppm (1.28%) Death in less than three minutes.
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I'm no stranger to this problem...\n\nIt feels like you are walking around in a fog, like nothing is truely "real" as you would normally feel it.  You feel like you could pass out at any second but at the same time you can force yourself to go on for quite a while without doing so.  It really takes a lot out of you and takes a lot to recover from.  You'll need quite a few good solid nights of sleep to completely get over it.