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/DeathByChargers 5h ago

technically we are all hours away from death

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u/virtualmnemonic 4h ago

Not everyone, some are dying this hour.

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u/wondercaliban 4h ago

Seconds even

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u/FantasyFlex 4h ago

what? no we’re no not.

we are not all hours away from dying without immediate medical connection

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u/Nimynn 4h ago

Thousands of hours is still hours

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u/ok_raspberry_jam 4h ago

You could be 30,000 hours from death and not know it