How does lightning kill you?

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How Lightning Kills

There are a couple of ways. The most common is that it disrupts the body's electrical signals and stops the heart and brain. The other is less commonly fatal but causes severe burn damage to the body.

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There are many ways for lightning to kill. A high voltage charge passing though one's body can do irreprable damage and even death. Many people struck by lightning become paralized and forget to or are unable to breathe. Many others are burned internally inside the brain where motor functions are severed and the body cant control motor functions and life support such as respiration. Others have their heart and aorta burned to a crisp where the major blood flow takes place and bleed to death internally. Even others are stunned by the electrical charge and it makes the heart stop beating. Without CPR being administered, death occurs. All of the above is from memory so I added a link below for more information.

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