Freezing or Burning to death?

Which is worse? I'd prefer to freeze, at least you don't feel anything before you die from freezing and I think freezing is a bit more survivable in some cases.

When you freeze to death the body produces extreme heat right before you lose your consciousness due to that the constricted blood vessles at the body's surface dilate, causing a sensation that essentially feels like burning to death.

Burning to death also produces a similar opposite reaction in the body where you feel like you're freezing.

If you get under an unbearably hot shower for a couple of seconds and you'll feel how your body reacts with shivers, almost as if you're freezing.

Posted by TokerX

I don't think anyone would willfully get under an unrearably hot shower lol. 😛 But I think (unless you live in the (sub)tropics perhaps) just about everyone knows the feeling of when it's cold outside and your hands feel like freezing and when you go back inside and they feel like burning. 😉

Yes but the burning sensation we're talking about here is not due to external factors, such as shift of enviroment or entering a warm room.

And yes I have willfully showered unbearably hot, 10-20 sec at a time, it caused a weird freezing sensation like I said.

Posted by TokerX
It's caused by the blood vessels opening again when you're warming up, no? So it should be the same sensation as with hypothermia (albeit less severe).

"Albeit less severe" no shit Sherlock, but you don't actually feel like you're burning to death every time you get in from the cold, so it's not precisely the same sensation just the same process. Congrats on passing 8th grade biology but what's your point again?

Wink to you too.

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Posted by DarkFire
Damnata is a bit concerned lol. It's ok. Hopefully most of us won't be freezing/ burning ourselves alive anytime soon.

damanta lost a close friend under tragic circumstances that related to the cold. hypothermia.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that.. I wish I wouldn't have brought it up then :/ I apologize.

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My condolences to Damnata. I'm sorry about your friend, sorry if the topic may have offended you.

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Posted by DarkFire
Damnata is a bit concerned lol. It's ok. Hopefully most of us won't be freezing/ burning ourselves alive anytime soon.

damanta lost a close friend under tragic circumstances that related to the cold. hypothermia.

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*hugs you*

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Posted by DarkFire
Damnata is a bit concerned lol. It's ok. Hopefully most of us won't be freezing/ burning ourselves alive anytime soon.

damanta lost a close friend under tragic circumstances that related to the cold. hypothermia.

Oh I'm sorry to hear that.. I wish I wouldn't have brought it up then :/ I apologize.

My condolences to Damnata. I'm sorry about your friend, sorry if the topic may have offended you.

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Don't worry, @ Leo, @ Cap

I think each topic hits on someone's nerve in some way around here. No need to bring the mood down.

*sits back with popcorn and watches the debate between enfant and tokerx, while winking incessantly*

On topic: Burn. Blaming it on my passion and my dad's passion for fireworks and fire in general. Don't have the Scorpio Moon scars to prove it though 😄.

Unless you go up into space where you suffocate and your head explodes from lack of air pressurization. That's even worse than freezing or burning

^^Science. It might be an assumption from a scientist or it's just used to scare people from going into space.

Posted by Sn1p3r187
^^Science. It might be an assumption from a scientist or it's just used to scare people from going into space.

Works for me. :/

^^At least it ain't flying into Jupiter's atmosphere and getting crushed or falling into a black hole