{"id":166,"date":"2009-03-01T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-03-01T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:39:52","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-march-1-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For March 1, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Dizzy and Confused Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The speed of exsanguination, as bleeding to death is known, depends on the source of the bleed, says John Kortbeek at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and chair of Advanced Trauma Life Support for the American College of Surgeons. People can bleed to death in seconds if the aorta, the major blood vessel leading from the heart, is completely severed, for example, after a severe fall or car accident.<\/p>\n<p>Death could creep up much more slowly if a smaller vein or artery is nicked &#8211; even taking hours. Such victims would experience several stages of haemorrhagic shock. The average adult has 5 litres of blood. Losses of around 750 millilitres generally cause few symptoms. Anyone losing 1.5 litres &#8211; either through an external wound or internal bleeding &#8211; feels weak, thirsty and anxious, and would be breathing fast. By 2 litres, people experience dizziness, confusion and then eventual unconsciousness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Survivors of haemorrhagic shock describe many different experiences, ranging from fear to relative calm,&#8221; Kortbeek says. &#8220;In large part this would depend on what and how extensive the associated injuries were. A single penetrating wound to the femoral artery in the leg might be less painful than multiple fractures sustained in a motor vehicle crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19626252.800-death-special-how-does-it-feel-to-die.html?page=2\">New Scientist<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Aeron<\/p>\n<p>When I was a distraught, suicidal teenager &#8230; and when I was a distraught, suicidal adult&#8230; I used to think that bleeding to death was my raison d&#8217;etre! Well, I was a cutter, so I guess it goes with the territory. I thought that there could possibly be no better way to go than leaving a dramatic, vivid swath of red in my wake. Ah, the lost dreams of youth&#8230; I have since succumbed to the idea that I&#8217;ll probably die of something as unglamorous as sepsis, thrombosis, a heart attack, or (perish the thought!!) in my sleep of &#8220;natural causes&#8221;. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Dizzy and Confused Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The speed of exsanguination, as bleeding to death is known, depends on the source of the bleed, says John Kortbeek at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and chair of Advanced Trauma Life Support for the American College of Surgeons. People can bleed to death in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}