There’s always a lot statistics about how many people die from this n that but death certificates mostly just say Respiratory failure or Heart failure, and they really seem to be put down with a Morphine Overdose. Where do the stats come from?

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

oxygen starved.

Temperature challenged

When do people die?

In Houston, gun shot wounds are a biggy. Usuallly cause of death is very accurate and concise.

I did have some one close to me die of a drug related cause. Although the real cause of death was a morphine overdose, they put asphyxiation on the death certificate because he did not actually take enough morphine to kill him, he took enough to not react to the fact he had barfed while passed out. I believe if they aactually die of an overdose it will say "herion toxicity". Another example is a drunk driver. He died from drinking too much alcohol, but his death certificate is going to say "blunt force trauma" due to the head on collision he was in.

Wow, tough question, German Star. I think people die when brain activity fizzles out to the point where consciousness can never be attained again (i have absolutely no idea how to fit special cases such as comas into this, especially since some people recover from comas and others don't). Our autonomic functions are meaningless without consciousness.

Back in the 1500’s, lead or pewter cups were used to drink ale and whiskey. The combination would sometimes knock the heavier drinkers out for a couple of days; often into a deep coma. Some collapsed on the way back to their homes.

Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.

They were cleaned up and laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and invite friends to eat and drink and speak well of the person while they waited to see if he’d wake up.

Hence, the custom of holding a “wake”.

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"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius

When God says so and not before?

By failing to inhale after an exhale?

Not waking up?

Saying, "Oh" but not saying, "$hit!"

"What's that light?"

did something stupid one too many times?

"here, hold my beer. Now watch this $hit!"

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What is it about stabbing someone's abdomen that knocks them out instantly? I see it in movies all the time. At most they'll allow a dramatic collapse. I imagine the pain is excruciating, but won't the stabee languish in agony for a while?

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I only know with certainty how teenage boys die.
By touching my daughter!