Artistic Science

ninjakato:

frienclzone:

choking on water is the worst because how do you stop choking? drink something? well ive got some bad news for you

How about choking on air?
It’s like your body forgot you breathe oxygen and decides to be a little shit and close your wind pipe like ,”Nope! No air getting in these lungs right now!” — And then you’re hacking your brains out because you forgot how to breathe properly.
‘Forgot how to breathe properly’ — The one function you’ve done since birth. And the more you breathe in, the worse it hurts because at that point your body is in like a full on rebellion against air. Like ‘hells no, you suck air! get out!’. 
Choking on water sucks but choking on air is awful. You feel like you swallowed glass afterward. 
(Then again 99% of the time choking on air is a result of inhaling tiny specs of particulate in the air that are invisible to the naked eye, but the sensitive mucus covered membranes of your throat and nose catch onto it and try to force it out. Still ridiculous though…)

I thought swallowing a teaspoon of honey helped with choking issues. Oh course you could always just shout “Heimlich”. Of course it’s very difficult to say heimlich when you’re choking to death.

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