Asklemmy

52889 readers

403 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Do you think you would survive if you received every injury of your life at once? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by isyasad@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

31 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm not thinking of virus or illness. Just physical injuries. Every paper cut, burn, broken bone, stubbed toe, bonked head, etc.
You receive all those injuries right now, in a single moment.

I think I would lose an arm and maybe an eye, plus lots of brain damage and bleeding, but otherwise I think I would live.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Most people fail to account for all the injuries you sustained as a child and walked off. All the hits to the head, mouth, ears, every single wall you ran into while learning to walk as a compound force.

Think most people would have immediate brain hemorrhage and die purely from all of that, and if not then probably a broken spine, especially when you’re older and have lost a lot of the elasticity that allowed you to simply absorb the impact as a kid.