20-something year old male. Life will never be the same for him.

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So much sadness and pain in one sagittal plane

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Does this mean that he can no longer control his body below his neck? Can someone clarify the body condition?

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This is an internal decapitation. Spinal cord completely severed at that disjunction. Best case scenario is quadriplegia. Much higher than this would have been fatal.

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“3, 4, 5 keeps him alive.”

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I think death would be preferable.

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Wait, how isn’t he dead? Aren’t the nerves that make the heart and lungs do their thing get severed if the spine breaks at that point?

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Organs can do a surprising amount on their own. Your heart will beat even without impulses from the brain, it just does much differently.

Not sure about the lungs, though. The diagram diaphragm does most of the work there. I don’t know how it would act without impulses.

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Nah he apparently lived, just paralyzed from the shoulders down.

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Its always the drunk crashers that give us drunk drivers a bad rep >:(

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Poor guy getting down voted for a gold joke

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Nice to see some things never change

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Only 25% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers. #DriveDrunk #StopTheSoberDrivers

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Any hope for some sort of recovery?

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My guess is probably not, this is an internal decapitation guy is lucky to even be alive (if he is).

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Not sure I would consider myself lucky surviving that. I think I’d rather die.

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He lived. Couldn’t feel anything shoulders down.

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