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I'm wondering what it feels like when you can't breathe?
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Panic: Breathing is a fundamental metabolic activity and the body has signficant and uncomfortably means to remind you to breathe. Try holding your breath as long as you can. Panic sets in when you cannot such as when a piece of food gets stuck in your throat. And the deep desire to breathe is why waterboarding as a torture is so effective. Incidentally, you cannot will death by stopping breathing.
Answered 3/14/2014
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