Hi, I was asking this guy about a person being cremated alive. He told me that he actually would not feel anything, due to an overload of stress signal his brain is going to receive, and how his brain will simply shut down. Is this true?
Also, how soon will this person being fed into a cremation oven lose consciousness? How many seconds?
Thanks.
The whole pain response shutting down due to overload is wishful thinking. You’re going to remain conscious and in agony until the nerves are destroyed, and possibly even after that. Shock can numb pain, but it doesn’t do so reliably.
How soon you’d lose consciousness depends in part on how hot the oven is. If you hold your breath going in you might survive a bit longer than you wound inhaling superheated air.
I once asked a medical examiner what the most painful way to die was, and he said without skipping a beat “Being burned alive.” Fortunately in fires, most people die of smoke inhalation before they are burned.
Modern crematoriums operate at a temperature of between 870-980 degrees C(1600-1800 degrees F), and by law the retort door cannot be opened until it has reached operating temperature. Seeing as how the law requires that there are temperature shut-off and door releases inside the chamber, I’d guess somebody believes that there is time to operate such equipment…which means that there is time to feel pain.
Cremation.
So, where are the pictures?
To me, there is a very obvious fallacy in this question. ANY number of seconds greater than zero would mean that the person DOES feel SOMEthing. Isn’t this obvious?
Not in the case of a sudden crash for instance. You can be dead or unconscious before there is time for the pain signals to reach your brain. Of course that is probably not the case with live cremation.
‘If we burn her, she gets stuffed in the flames, crackle, crackle, crackle, which is a bit of a shock if she’s not quite dead, but quick.’
If an OP ever deserved to have “Need answer fast” in it…
Hi thanks for responding. question, how can there still be pain after the nerve endings are destroyed?
Assuming the oven is burning at 800 degree celsius. How soon will the person lose consciousness?
I can’t tell you. Every time I’ve shoved a live person into one of those things they would hit the internal emergency shutoff switch, and the law won’t allow me to disable the damn thing.
Here you are, watch it yourself:
If you were in a cold crematorium, performing maintenance perhaps, and someone shut the door and turned it on, you’d appreciate being able to turn off the heat and open the door from the inside.
I can’t do much more until I get some volunteers that won’t cop out at the last second.
Promise them cake at their victory candescence.
Phantom pain. The body can feel pain in bits that are no longer there.
I have no idea. Pretty quick, but not quick enough to escape pain.
I tried that. They didn’t think “Be the candle!” was very funny.
A few years after graduation, one of my high school classmates drove herself out to the (thankfully vacant) sports park, doused the inside of her car with gasoline, and lit a match. I cannot imagine the mental state that would make someone do that.
I was tormented by “mean girls” in high school, and though she was part of their circle she was always friendly to me. RIP J.