You are lying in one of those beds, behind these doors, in one of these corridors, which are similar everywhere – in some hospital, in some city, like most of the dying. In total, there are many of you. Year after year, data is collected about each of you because it is a valuable knowledge for the community who dies, when and of what. These data are guidelines for medical research.
- Many people dream of sudden and unexpected death – without pain, suffering or prolonged medical procedures
- «Like a wind-up car: it worked, it worked, until suddenly a major part, for example the drive, broke down, and the whole mechanism simply stopped working. However, only a few die in this way “, we read in the book” How We Die “by Roland Schulz
- The systems and organs of our body deteriorate slowly and successively, making our death gradual and divided into installments
- We have over 200 bones and over 600 muscles – we read in Schulz’s book
- The first signs of death appear after the age of 30, when our heart performance begins to decline
- More interesting information can be found on the Onet homepage.
An excerpt from Roland Schulz’s book “How we die”, which we publish thanks to the courtesy of the Muza Publishing House
How does a person die?
Doctors dream of combining into one statistic of all deaths around the world: in Germany, Europe, Asia, America, Africa, a total of over 57 million a year, and they have even started to categorize and count them – they call this dataset White A whale of medicine, since Ahab’s fierceness is needed to ensnare him: for it concerns every single death, every life that has preceded it. This undertaking is considered a triumph in the fight for health. But you care about the button. Why the hell are you lying here? You hoped death would catch you unexpectedly.
This is how many people imagine their end – a quick death, unexpected, in full health. Just like in a wind-up car: it worked, it worked, until suddenly a major part broke down, such as the drive, and the whole mechanism simply stopped working. However, only a few die this way. You’re too complicated a machine for that.
Your body supports more than two hundred bones, you move thanks to about six hundred muscles. Your heart beats nearly a hundred times a minute, the blood in your veins is so pressured that it can reach every corner of your body. The lungs breathe more than ten thousand liters of air every day, from which millions of alveoli extract up to eight hundred liters of oxygen.
In the brain, almost one and a half kilograms of tissue are born: thoughts, actions, memories, dreams; through his nerve connections he sends out stimuli faster than lightning.
You consist of billions of ingredients, some of which regenerate entirely on their own. Some are double: lobes, kidneys, fallopian tubes, and testes. You are not a simple machine, but a fail-safe system more complex than a state-of-the-art power plant. Physicists call this an open system of a higher order. Such systems rarely break down overnight. It happens gradually.
After the age of thirty, the performance of the heart decreases.
After forty, the muscle mass decreases.
After fifty, bone density decreases.
After XNUMX, on average a third of the teeth are missing.
After seventy, the brain shrinks.
You wear out until there is nothing left to wear. Then the system collapses within itself. It doesn’t happen suddenly. But for death, even such a slow pace is fast enough.