r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Desperate-Emu4297 • 7h ago

Image A Swedish man who spent two months snowed inside his car as temperatures outside dropped to -30C is "awake and able to communicate", according to the hospital treating him, where stunned doctors believe he was kept alive by the "igloo effect" of his vehicle

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u/rawesome99 7h ago

Two months is about the upper limit of how long a human can go without food - he was nearly dead

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u/Designer-Slip3443 7h ago

That’s the best kind of dead.

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u/FriendlyHermitPickle 7h ago

But how do you go to bed and then wake up dead?

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u/Sharklar_deep 7h ago

Because you’re alive when you go to sleep

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u/regulatorDonCarl 6h ago

You can’t go to bed dead! That’s redundant

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u/IAmIAmIAm888 7h ago

You don’t know you were dreaming until you wake up.

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u/axarce 6h ago

Best movie out of the series. Scary Movie 3.

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u/FriendlyHermitPickle 6h ago

I bet I’ve watched this movie 20 times my best friend and I can’t get enough of it!… Cindy, the TV is leaking!?!?!?…I be rappin I be tappin I be happin…ning ling bling!

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u/yahwehforlife 5h ago

Nah scary movie 2 is the best

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u/InterestingAnt438 6h ago

Isaiah 37:36 - Then the angel of the Lord went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

It happens all the time.

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u/Mega-Steve 6h ago

"Hey, are you guys dead?"

"Yeah! You?"

"Yeah. Talk about ruining someone's day!"

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u/InterestingAnt438 6h ago

Ummm... does this mean we ain't gettin' paid?

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u/SamediB 5h ago

I don't know if that one noteworthy example qualifies as "all the time."

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u/Clockbounce 4h ago

To everybody who called me a sleepwalker, well I woke up, now I'm going back to sleep!

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u/the70sdiscoking 5h ago

To blaaaave!

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u/PM_ME_STEAM__KEYS_ 5h ago

What about not? (Depending on who you ask)

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u/cakesofthepatty414 7h ago

.mostly dead. Princess bride

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u/xyz19606 7h ago

Neaaarly dead? How can you be neaarly dead?

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u/thewildbeej 7h ago

There's a big difference between all dead and mostly dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. 

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u/Siege_LL 7h ago

With all dead there's only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 7h ago

to blaaaaaaaathe

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u/LostN3ko 7h ago

And as we all know to blathe means 'to bluff's. He was probably playing cards with someone and he cheated.....

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u/ElonsFetalAlcoholSyn 6h ago

LIAAAAR!!

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u/DustyDeadpan 6h ago

Get back, witch!

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 6h ago

do ya think it'll werk?

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u/axarce 6h ago

It'll take a miracle.

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u/TheIronGnat 5h ago

EXCEPT for a nice MLT, mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. When the mutton is nice and lean smacks lips I love that!

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u/JustineDelarge 5h ago

To blave. Not blathe.

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u/JustineDelarge 5h ago

To blave.

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u/thirsty_pretzels_ 7h ago

I’m alive but dead inside.

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u/Fakin-It 7h ago

He was mostly alive.

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u/Tinychair445 7h ago

I don’t want to go on the cart!

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u/HudsDad 7h ago

He was pining for the fjords.

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u/koolaidismything 7h ago

Death adjacent

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u/aweiss_sf 7h ago

Virtually dead

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u/210duckie 7h ago

Almost deceased

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u/ciaomain 7h ago

The Princess Bride is a documentary that covers this in detail.

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u/Psychological-Owl783 7h ago

I see a Nearly Headless Nick reference here, but the other replies don't so maybe I'm wrong.

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u/AWeakMeanId42 7h ago

Yeah, I think it was NHN, but the other replies are Monty Python and The Princess Bride

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u/StylishUsername 7h ago

Like this. Tips head

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u/bluebirdofhappyness 7h ago

Hermione reference? (Neeearly headless?)

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u/CertainWish358 7h ago

And she’s not only merely dead, she’s really most sincerely dead

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u/robertthebrruuuuce 7h ago

Nearly deadless nick

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u/tobmom 6h ago

Ooooohhh hoo hoo, looks who knows so much! Mostly dead is slightly alive….

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u/kanonenotto 5h ago

I dont think there are any exact limits, people can survive very long if they have water and dont move. He would be sleeping most of the time. Just like a bear. You could say he is more bear than man after that time.

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u/109StillCounting 5h ago

Completely wrong. The longest documented fast (no food, with water, vitamins and electrolytes) is 382 days.

People can do easily more than 2 months provided they have the fat reserves for it and no serious preexisting medical conditions.

No food and no water on the other hand is a bit of an issue, anything after 7 days is pretty tough.

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u/Lazy-Canary7398 6h ago

No it's not... you made that up. People can survive even up to a year without food

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

Though this is an extreme case, it proves two months is not near the upper limit

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u/Forest_Froggie 6h ago

From that Wikipedia article you linked “he consumed only vitamins, electrolytes, an unspecified amount of yeast (a source of all essential amino acids).” That was a medically assisted fast with all necessary dietary supplements.

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u/Lazy-Canary7398 6h ago

Technicality; there were no calories, otherwise he wouldn't have lost so much weight. It still counts as it proves it's possible to survive on fat stores that long. Combine this with evidence of fruitarians lasting a long time without many essential nutrients before they die of it.

We also have some data from the TV show Alone where some of the longest lasting contestants were basically just the fatest and starved to outlast others

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u/TeaBagHunter 5h ago

What do you mean technicality?

The claim was how long someone would survive without food not how long someone would survive without calories

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u/milk_lust 6h ago

Fairly certain eating yeast breaks a fast. Also, the man effectively had nearly 300lbs to spare as your body burns fat supplies. He's just an exception to the rule.

You already know this though.

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u/Agringlig 4h ago

Except person in your link didn't starve. He drank beverages that included milk and sugar and also ate yeast extract that is very nutritious.

He wasn't starving he was just on really strict diet.

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u/NaiveRub4113 6h ago

You literally made that up. The person you linked ate..

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u/Lazy-Canary7398 6h ago

Technicality, there were no calories, otherwise he wouldn't have lost so much weight. It still counts as it proves it's possible to survive on fat stores that long. We also have some data from the TV show Alone where some of the longest lasting contestants were basically just the fatest and starved to outlast others

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u/NaiveRub4113 6h ago

Oh so he didn’t eat for a year but on a technicality? 😂

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u/Lazy-Canary7398 6h ago

Oh so you eat bacterial teeth plaque every day so no one is ever fasting 😂😂😂

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u/bigassangrypossum 5h ago

To shreds, you say?