Sure. And the two I focused on constitute a pretty tiny sample. What bothers me is that I cannot see a mechanism for why it is the case. Why does freezing give you the warm cozies? With a drug overdose, I can see how the poison activates or inhibits certain receptors, potentially killing you happy.
I have been told that drowning is supposed to be a horrible way to go; in what way(s) is it different from autoerotic asphyxiation? You know, besides the obvious.
With a drug overdose, I can see how the poison activates or inhibits certain receptors, potentially killing you happy.
With [asphyxiation], I can see how the [CO2] activates or inhibits certain receptors, potentially killing you happy.
I have been told that drowning is supposed to be a horrible way to go; in what way(s) is it different from autoerotic asphyxiation? You know, besides the obvious.
Um… you might want to take a closer look at the obvious. Intuitively, I would expect water in your lungs to be rather unpleasant, for the same reason fire on your hand is—animals that went ‘this isn’t very nice, I think I’ll remove myself from this situation’ tended to have more kids.
Intuitively, I would expect water in your lungs to be rather unpleasant,
Pointing the following out is a little pedanterrific on my part, but in a typical drowning, very little water enters the lungs until after unconsciousness (and in a minority of drownings, until after cardiac arrest).
Edit: I would nonetheless expect most drownings to be unpleasant for the same reasons as any other involuntary asphyxiation (but not all).
Um… you might want to take a closer look at the obvious
This led me to make a prediction that I can’t test at the moment (being that I am at work). There must be a group or fraction of the population that actually does like drowning for the exact same reason as they like autoerotic asphyxiation. I would expect there to be fewer, though, if only because suffocation has a much easier dead-man’s switch.
Sure. And the two I focused on constitute a pretty tiny sample. What bothers me is that I cannot see a mechanism for why it is the case. Why does freezing give you the warm cozies? With a drug overdose, I can see how the poison activates or inhibits certain receptors, potentially killing you happy.
I have been told that drowning is supposed to be a horrible way to go; in what way(s) is it different from autoerotic asphyxiation? You know, besides the obvious.
With [asphyxiation], I can see how the [CO2] activates or inhibits certain receptors, potentially killing you happy.
Um… you might want to take a closer look at the obvious. Intuitively, I would expect water in your lungs to be rather unpleasant, for the same reason fire on your hand is—animals that went ‘this isn’t very nice, I think I’ll remove myself from this situation’ tended to have more kids.
Pointing the following out is a little pedanterrific on my part, but in a typical drowning, very little water enters the lungs until after unconsciousness (and in a minority of drownings, until after cardiac arrest).
Edit: I would nonetheless expect most drownings to be unpleasant for the same reasons as any other involuntary asphyxiation (but not all).
:s/lungs/airways/
The point seems to hold. Involuntary laryngospasm wouldn’t do much good if the organism experienced no distress or desire to leave the water.
That said, thanks for pointing that out. I really should know better than to say “Intuitively, I would expect” and then not bother to do the research.
This led me to make a prediction that I can’t test at the moment (being that I am at work). There must be a group or fraction of the population that actually does like drowning for the exact same reason as they like autoerotic asphyxiation. I would expect there to be fewer, though, if only because suffocation has a much easier dead-man’s switch.