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Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition arising when the body is deprived of oxygen, causing unconsciousness or death; suffocation; a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing.===* Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects primarily the tissues and organs. * There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characteriz...
Please add the profiles for those who died of Smoke Inhalation.== Smoke inhalation is the primary cause of death for victims of fires. The inhalation or exposure to hot gaseous products of combustion can cause serious respiratory complications.Burning materials, chemicals, and the gases created can cause smoke inhalation by simple asphyxiation (lack of oxygen), chemical irritation, chemical asp...
Erotic asphyxiation or breath control play is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. This sexual practice is variously called asphyxiophilia, autoerotic asphyxia, hypoxyphilia. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a person to themselves. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a gasper.The er...
Avalanches are masses of snow, ice, and rocks that fall rapidly down a mountainside. It is a cohesive slab of snow lying upon a weaker layer of snow in the snowpack that fractures and slides down a steep slope when triggered and usually accelerate rapidly and grow in mass and volume as they entrain more snow. While avalanches are sudden, the warning signs are almost always numerous before they ...
Stampede== This is more of an umbrella project. You might want to make a project around a specific stampede event. If so, please mention it in this discussion: Cause of Death Projects needed??? A stampede is uncontrolled concerted running as an act of mass impulse among herd animals or a crowd of people in which the group collectively begins running, often in an attempt to escape a perceived th...