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.
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.
A lot of my worse injuries involve poison or toxicity. The brown recluse would have taken me down if everything was going wrong in my blood at the same time and I couldn’t walk
I’ve lived a relatively low injury life, and I think you’re sleeping on some pretty obvious universal but forgettable experiences.
If I just consider what it would feel like to experience all of my sunburns, paper cuts, back problems, mosquito bites, and situations where I’ve been hit in the nuts or had the wind knocked out of me…
If the shock of experiencing all that minor stuff at once isn’t enough to take me out, it’d at least be agonizing enough that I might shoot myself just to get a little relief.
Does surgery count?
On the early Antarctica expeditions they wouldn’t let anyone with an old war injury or surgical scars join, because scurvy can do something similar.
You be the judge of it:
- punched through a tempered, textured, 3mm thick glass, leading to several cuts on a hand and wrist
- kicked a glass panel on a door and got a nasty cust on my toe
- several instances of cutting myself on different types of thorny bushes
- perforation with glasses rim on my eyebrow
- severe cut on my other eyebrow, another on the bridge of my nose
- broken arm, twice
- fall from a 1st floor balcony, landing on a bush, after breaking a cabinet with my back and legs, until finally reaching the ground
- hundreds, if not thousands, of small scrapes and bruises
- bitten by dogs, leading to deep gouges, on my calves
- severe tear on the back of my left hand, with a broken bone, not exposed, leading to surgery
- many, many, many sprained ankles and wrists
- three pulled teeth plus all the bleeding from losing my baby teeth
- minor burns on hands and fingers, from cooking
- several nasty cuts from kitchen knives and a perforation by a lobster spike, which led to a severe infection, with a piece of lobster shell stuck underneath a finger nail
- a few near choking to death episodes
- two electrocussion incidents (230V), for mere seconds
- a few near choking to death episodes
If they were really near, then two combined should be enough to end it, no?
Your arms and hands would be pretty messed up. Depending on which arm was broken twice and how badly, it may be permanently damaged.
Biggest thing is probably blood loss. I think your survival comes down to how much blood you lost in your glass injuries and from every other injury combined.Source: not a doctor, just guessing.
Nope, and if i didn’t die of asphyxiation or concussion I’d probably die of blood loss from a vast multitude of cuts and scrapes. Early 20s btw, not even a veteran in getting injured
The worst part would be getting kicked in the balls multiple times at once
I’ve never been severely injured enough for it to be seriously dangerous to my health as far as I’m aware but I would get the shit beaten out of me instantaneously and probably start bleeding from the mouth because I would definitely count getting my wisdom teeth ripped out.
I wouldn’t want to live, but I probably would if I got to a hospital quickly.
Yes. Haven’t even had any really bad scrapes or anything.
Some odd I pass out from blood loss (like everyone). Or pain. Also I’m gonna have even more wicked scars on the sides of my fingers. But like, no broken bones and no major trauma is just really survivable.
Head trauma alone I’m gone I think.
Do I have to survive?
I’m 55 and I’ve had a lot of injuries over the cause of my life and although I’ve never had any life threatening ones, I doubt I’d survive. My body would be a mess of wounds, and many on top of each other. Not to mention a number of broken bones, a lot of hits to my head, many needing stitches and bleeding like hell and two of them laying me out cold for longer than is good for you. Unless I was in a trauma room, I’d bleed out pretty quickly while unconscious I think.
Edit: Someone mentioned electrocution and I’ve done that a number of times too. Also surgeries. I’m pretty sure I’d die pretty instantly from the chock and multiple traumas. I’d forgot about bruises, I’d be completely blue.
The reason for the edit is that I’d wonder what the coroner finding my body would think. 😂 Was she run in a concrete tumbler for 10 hours while simultaneously rolling down a mountain side? What the hell happened here?
Do surgeries count?
It’s a good question, because when you think about it, surgery is a combination of carefully controlled intentional injury, and repair of that injury.
Yeah if they do I’m dead. Brain surgery in addition to all the concussions I’ve had, oh and had a stroke during birth. If I survived, not much would be going on in my head
Fun question!
If poison (alcohol or other) counts, I’m dead.
If surgeries counts, I’m soon to be dead.
If electrocution counts, I’m likely dead (I guess it depends on how grounded I am at the time, because that’s a LOT of electricity to take at once).
Otherwise, with someone professional help nearby, I’ll live… but not if I’m alone. I would not have use of my hands to call for help and would bleed a lot, plus concussion. My blood type can recieve from several other blood groups, so as long I’m in hospital I’m okay. None of my broken bones have been near endangering organs so im not worried about them. Probably blood loss and chock is my biggest concern, and infection from a thousand cuts in the long run. I would hopefully and probably pass out to relieve myself of the pain.
I think I would survive. The worst injuries I’ve had were cuts in my fingers and muscle tears.
I shudder to think what every stubbed toe I’ve ever had happening at once would feel like
