# What is death like inside a goldfish's stomach?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 4, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-death-like-inside-a-goldfishs-stomach/652053 "2013-03-04T23:53:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-death-like-inside-a-goldfishs-stomach/652053/21 "2013-03-09T05:19:49Z")

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> [@SeldomSeen](#):
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> Tim Cahill, the travel writer tried that on a visit to Minnesota (do they do this anywhere else?) He said it was important to swallow the minnow head first. “If you swallow it tail first it tries to swim back up”.
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> I can only imagine…

Early 90s in Whitewater, WI

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