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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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From the observations by and of people who are overheated to death versus those who freeze to death (and there are a LOT of both types of evidence, objective and especially subjective), it SEEMS (since we are relying on a lot on subjective observations) that freezing to death is much less painful way to go. After the initial pain from being so cold, your sensory organs that feels cold eventually become numb and unresponsive, and the cold stops being so incredibly painful. Your body temp slowly drops, people going through this sometimes report a "warming" sensation as the body undergoes temperature confusion as it loses body temperature, you lose energy in your body related to how cold it is to you, you start to feel lethargic and sleepy, your major organs start to fail, inevitably leading to cardiac arrest from one cause or another. Still, you are most probably unconscious by that time.
For hyperthermia related to exterior temperatures (i.e., not a fever, but being caught in a desert), you will undergo the process of dehydration, which can be incredibly painful, and accompanying the dehydration with heat stroke leads to nausea, PAINFUL headaches, confusion, dementia, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and paradoxically, your sweating physiology often shuts down, increasing your inability to cool down. Once your body temp goes above about 105 or so, you are now in danger of frying the proteins in your body, especially in your brain, and death will ensue very quickly. Unfortunately for those undergoing this way of dying, it is very possible to remain conscious all the way up to the moment of death, and it would be in an extremely painful state
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