I just spent way too much time reading about what happens once your heart stops beating. It's funny to think that in about the time it takes on average for a man to ejaculate during intercourse, the brain, without oxygenated blood, undergoes irreparable cell damage. Bump that up to fifteen minutes and the cells in your heart tissue have decayed sufficiently enough that even if you're resuscitated (suffering catastrophic brain damage), you're likely to experience life-threatening heart-illness and arrhythmias. At thirty minutes, gravity has its way with your blood and it pools into your legs and feet, assuming you're upright. Your kidneys are still good for about two hours though, so drink up. Surprisingly, corneal tissue can be salvaged from your eyes for transplants as long as seventy-two hours after death. Sperm too! Strange to think that my eyes and my balls will technically outlive me. They are the two most important pieces of equipment when it comes to survival and reproduction I guess.
What happens in the mind while the brain suffocates in those first six minutes? We'll all find out one day. It's crazy; the sensation of our consciousness dissolving is the last thing we'll ever know.
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