User blog comment:EtherealNyx/The Destiny Games: An Update/@comment-3991308-20160808014114

holy hex this is intense. im sure you'll be well-versed on this sort of stuff but i ended up getting overexcited and writing out a bunch of fun facts from my limited biology & physics knowledge!!

– the brain is still "alive" for ten seconds post decapitations. the french used to take advantage of this by holding up a freshly gullitoned head so it could view it's old body. basically, a dead aristocrat's last thought is their own newly decapitated body.

– the body shuts down when it gets too cold so it would be a relatively painless death... compared for the rest.

– death by explosion/death by arrow/bleeding from a chest wound.... loss of blood = lack of oxygen = no cellular respiration. for the arrow/chest wound, it would be survivable if your blood clots in time, I think. Or if pressure it applied.

– the standard rule is "three minutes without air, three days without water, and three months without food."

– how far you need to fall? depends on how well you absorb the shock. basically, you can fall from whatever height you like... how much it hurts depends on how "sharp" and quick your deceleration is. it's not the falling that kills you, it's the stopping.

– honestly a good tip I have for researching poisonous berries and stuff is make up your own berries. scientists and geneticists and farmers come up with completely new species and strands of plants all the time. and animals, too! and bacteria! (ie, the superbug and all those crazy dog breeds back in the 19th century).

– food poisoning occurs generally 5 to 24 hours after consumption. but i imagine it might be less of the food poisoning that kills you, but rather violent vomiting and bacterial infections that may occur.