When people die from electric shock?
816414
Always the current. The voltage can be whatever.
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The threshold current to feel an electrical shock on human skin is in the range of one to twenty thousandths of an ampere or 1 - 20 mA. Contrast this with the current drawn by a 100 watt light bulb, about 1000 mA or 1 A.\n\nThe voltage required to produce a "shock sensation" varies, depending on the dry or moist nature of the skin contacted. Dry skin requires more voltage to reach the threshold level of shock sensation.\n\nMany years ago it was fairly common practice to "taste" electricity from a 1.5 volt dry cell as a "demonstration of electricity." I doubt this is encouraged today, but I have experienced that sensation by holding my thumb against one end of the cell and pressing the other end lightly to my tongue, ostensibly to determine whether the cell is any good. That worked okay for me until one day I tried to test a 9 volt transistor radio battery by touching both electrodes (that's what the little button and cup on the battery is called) to my tongue. Ouch! I received a very painful shock. After that I used a voltmeter to check batteries.\n\nAlso many years ago, there was a popular device installed in roller skating rinks, bars, and other public places to "test your strength" by grasping two vertical metal handles that were connected to an induction coil, a device for producing high voltage electricity. As one of the handles was rotated the voltage increased, the object being to rotate the handle all the way to its mechanical stop without having to let go. Such devices are extremely dangerous because the current passes through both hands and the chest, possibly inducing a fatal fibrillation in the heart muscle.\n\nIt is best to be extremely careful not to get shocked in the first place. Even very small currents, if they pass through the heart, can be fatal. That is why it is common practice for those who work with "live" circuits to always do so with only one hand, keeping the other hand in a pocket to avoid making a complete circuit through the body.
354210
you mean static shocks its built up sdick electricity and when you touch metal it discharges. there for shocking you. its not real elctrisity.
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Current kills, not voltage.\n\nThe number of volts in an electrical is not so much as important as the current (amps) which are carried through the body.  If you have ever been shocked by static electricity or a Van de Graaf generator, you have experiences (and lived through) shocks of very high electrical potentials (very high volages), but the current was just too low to really effect you.\n\nIt does not take much current to stop a heart, just a few tenths of an amp (not a lot at all) can kill you if it runs through your body the right [or in this case, wrong] way,\nhttp://www.physics.udel.edu/wwwusers/watson/scen103/colloq2000/safety.html\nhttp://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html\n\nBut to get back to your question,\nit is entirely possible to be killed by sticking a screw driver into an electrical socket...this probably wouldnt be a good thing to test out though.  If you are grounded when you stick the crew driver in, the current could travel through the screen driver, into your arm, perhaps through your chest and heart, and down your leg.
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The heart has a natural pacemaker. It operates with its own electrical impulses. If excess current is introduced to the body, it will speed up the heart, a-fib will result and cardiac arrest...because the heart will get mixed signal and cannot keep up the pace of the heart..the blood will back up in the atrium of the heart and not enough blood will be pumped to the body...the electrical shock will destroy the heart muscle..reulting in cardiac arrest before the brain is affected...death would occur.
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Electric?  If you mean do you get shocked by everything you touch, then yes, that happens to me all the time.
1055054
A friend of mine died of toxic shock - becuase she didn't go to the hospital, and when she finally did - it was becuase she was in a coma.  The doctors and the nurses didn't know she had a tampon inserted becuase she came in from a high fever and shock.  She was in a coma shortly after her arrival in the hospital, and died three days later.  I'm not saying don't use tampons - becuase I still do, but PLEASE if you think it's even a possibility - just go to the hospital.
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The brain dies, and is no longer telling the body what to do, muscles relax and that is what causes defication. \n\nThis can also happen during epileptic fit or unconciousness (though less than common) where the brain is either under extreme stress from lack of oxygen or just in shock from whatever is happening to it. The body can react this way from shock also.
964568
You will lose lots of blood, go into shock and die...
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Burns, fibrillation of the heart and neurological effects. See: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock
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interesting question. I'm not sure I think it would depend on how you die. If it was something that would affect your brain like spine injury or stroke probly not but maybe if you have a heart attack your brain can still process for a few seconds while it still has blood that your heart stopped and you are dying. I do know that the brain can still work when cut off from the body (for a few seconds.) When they decapitated people they told them to blink until they couldn't anymore and the people would blink for almost 30 seconds after the head was cut off until they bleed to death. Kinda scary...
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Ah, is this the Age-Old question you ask, or simple curiosity about Human electrical energy?  \n\nAs I understand it, measurable electrical energy ceases to be monitorable in the body a short time after both the brain and heart have ceased functioning.  Electrical energy is still present for a time after the pronunciation of death, and may be visible as post-mortem twitching.  It takes some time for the chemical and electrical energy to cease being present in the deceased.\n\nNow, since science postulates that energy can be neither created nor destroyed, it is logical to presume that the energy must travel elsewhere.\n\nYour spiritual belief system will answer the next part of the question ... Where does the energy go after death?\n\nIf you believe that the energy is dispersed among all other living entities, then you might be  Taoist.  \n\nIf you beleive that the energy is re-cycled and reconcentrated into another single entity, then you might be Hindu.\n\nIf you believe the energy remains intact but is transported to another place, or dimension, then you beleive in Heaven, and might be a follower of one of many religious teachings. \n\nEtc...\n\nHope this helps.
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Death is the cessation of physical life.\n\nHistorically, attempts to define the exact moment of death have been problematic. Death was once defined as the cessation of heartbeat (cardiac arrest) and of breathing, but the development of CPR and prompt defibrillation posed a challenge, rendering the previous definition inadequate. This earlier definition of death is now called "clinical death", and even after it occurs, breathing and heartbeat may be restarted in some cases. Events which were causally linked to death in the past are now prevented from having an effect; even without a functioning heart and lungs, a person can be sustained with life-support devices. In addition to such extremes, there is a growing number of people who would quickly die if their organ transplants or cardiac pacemakers failed.\n\nToday, where a definition of the moment of death is required, doctors and coroners usually turn to "brain death" or "biological death": people are considered dead when the electrical activity in their brain ceases (cf. persistent vegetative state). It is presumed that a stoppage of electrical activity indicates the end of consciousness. However, suspension of consciousness must be permanent, and not transient, as occurs during sleep, and especially a coma. In the case of sleep, EEGs can easily tell the difference. Identifying the moment of death is important in cases of transplantation, as organs for transplant (the brain excluded) must be harvested as quickly as possible after the death of the body.\n\nMore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
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no....human bodies carry electric current very well and when you touch something with too much static, it goes thru that point in your body, and out another (into the earth). You're basically the earthing-wire.
340620
When one dies , he/she will have no feeling. I remember one evening when I was watching television. I found that the sound from the TV became weaker and weaker.The room became quieter and quieter. Even if someone dropped a needle I could hear it clearly.Just  then I told my mom that I heard nothing. Then I fainted and when I woke up I couldn't move. It seemed  as if I were  a dead person. I couldn't get up or raise up my hand  because it was as heavy as hundred kg.  That accident let me experience the moment of death. It was not terrible at all. It was quite smooth as the whole world became so quiet ...quiet until I  heard nothing. No feeling at tall . So death is not terrible nor painful. After I fainted I had no feeling at all.Therefore I think people will not have feeling after they died.
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its pretty simple, depending on the shock level you want. use a industrial plastic glove. with a small metal plate on the thumb and middle finger(make sure u don't touch them together) and hook up a circuit with high voltage and low amps. if amps are too high you will hurt someone fatally. circuit kits are available at local stores. this can be very dangerous, be careful. use only small shock devices.
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What kills you is not the voltage but the amperes. Current (amps) = Voltage / Resistance. This is ohms law. 10mAmps causes muscular spasms. 30mAmps causes respiratory failure. 75 causes ventricular fibrilation that is the ineffective pumping of the heart. Until this point, the heart can gain back its normal rythym if a defilibrator is used. beyond 4amps, the heart stops functioning and beyond 5 amps, tissue in the body starts to burn.