Beheska t1_jdohcfn wrote on March 25, 2023 at 11:10 PM

Reply to comment by mahmoudhanine9t7 in TIL of the Bolvano Train Disaster which claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 1944. After the train became stalled in a tunnel, the passengers and crew succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning when the locomotives attempted to continue and filled the tunnel with smoke. by MorsOmnibusCommunis

I'd rather be hit by a meteorite than suffocate.

Tutorbin76 t1_jdqexgr wrote on March 26, 2023 at 11:24 AM

That's actually a fascinating/terrifying quirk of human physiology - unless there's CO2 present then so long as you're breathing you have no idea you're suffocating. You just start to feel a bit sleepy and uncoordinated, then doze off and never wake up.