What happens when your scared half to death?

[Trogtor]

Well, when you get scared half to death, you're scared halfway to death relative to however close you were to death in the first place. Let me demonstrate:



So as you can see, no matter how many times you get scared halfway to death, you will always be at least an infinitesimal distance away from dying.

wonderful demonstration

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[Smooth]

Well, when you get scared half to death, you're scared halfway to death relative to however close you were to death in the first place. Let me demonstrate:



So as you can see, no matter how many times you get scared halfway to death, you will always be at least an infinitesimal distance away from dying.

i feel like im in some lecture for school or some stuff, damn son

[XR-7]

We have discovered how to live forever

[sir dooble]

So as you can see, no matter how many times you get scared halfway to death, you will always be at least an infinitesimal distance away from dying.

That said, you could theoretically get scared half-to-death so much, or so close to your point of death, that the time halfed would be beyond your own awareness.
So to yourself, it could seem as if that final scare killed you, because you couldn't actually process any info in the amount of time you had left after being scared.

You wouldn't be scared to death technically, but in your final moment you might not be aware of that fact.

[newspeed12]

That said, you could theoretically get scared half-to-death so much, or so close to your point of death, that the time halfed would be beyond your own awareness.
So to yourself, it could seem as if that final scare killed you, because you couldn't actually process any info in the amount of time you had left after being scared.

You wouldn't be scared to death technically, but in your final moment you might not be aware of that fact.

This is theoretically theoretical theory made me temporarily go to another dimension

[EcstaticEggplant]

That said, you could theoretically get scared half-to-death so much, or so close to your point of death, that the time halfed would be beyond your own awareness.
So to yourself, it could seem as if that final scare killed you, because you couldn't actually process any info in the amount of time you had left after being scared.

You wouldn't be scared to death technically, but in your final moment you might not be aware of that fact.

So if someone scares you half to death enough to the point of your relative scares being so close to death that you think you are dead, however you aren't.

[sir dooble]

So if someone scares you half to death enough to the point of your relative scares being so close to death that you think you are dead, however you aren't.

No no.

Imagine you're about .5 seconds away from death.
And at that moment you are scared half to death.
Your time to death would now be .25 seconds away.
That's such a short amount of time that you'd probably not even be aware of it, since your brain can't process all the info of your last .25 seconds alive.

So to you, you'd have been .5 seconds away from death, been scared and then immediately died. To to the individual it would seem as though they had been scared TO death, but instead were actually scared HALF TO death, and then died naturally afterwards.

[SeventhSandwich]

No no.

Imagine you're about .5 seconds away from death.
And at that moment you are scared half to death.
Your time to death would now be .25 seconds away.
That's such a short amount of time that you'd probably not even be aware of it, since your brain can't process all the info of your last .25 seconds alive.

So to you, you'd have been .5 seconds away from death, been scared and then immediately died. To to the individual it would seem as though they had been scared TO death, but instead were actually scared HALF TO death, and then died naturally afterwards.

Let me see how this would apply for me:

Based on current actuarial tables, I have about 59 years left to live. We can model how getting scared to death would affect my lifespan with the following equation:

L = 59*(1/2)^n

L being the years I have left to live, and n being the number of times I've been scared half to death.

So we can use algebra to figure out (roughly) how many times I have to be scared half to death to reach a remaining lifespan of .25 secs and therefore die almost instantly.

.25 secs is hard to convert to years, but I did it anyway: it's 1/(365*24*60*60*4), or 7.92744799594*10^-9

So, therefore
(1/(365*24*60*60*4)) = 59 *(1/2)ⁿ

and n = log_1/2(1/(365*24*60*60*4*59)) = n
n = 32.79

That means if I wanted to guarantee that I wouldn't be able to have any kind of perceptible experience of life after being scared half to death enough times, I would want to be scared half to death 33 times.

[EcstaticEggplant]

No no.

Imagine you're about .5 seconds away from death.
And at that moment you are scared half to death.
Your time to death would now be .25 seconds away.
That's such a short amount of time that you'd probably not even be aware of it, since your brain can't process all the info of your last .25 seconds alive.

So to you, you'd have been .5 seconds away from death, been scared and then immediately died. To to the individual it would seem as though they had been scared TO death, but instead were actually scared HALF TO death, and then died naturally afterwards.

oh stuff. I did not realise time until death was involved in this, haha.
All of the answers to this are amazing.

[SailorMan]

You count your lucky stars it wasn't full to death, son.

[sir dooble]

That means if I wanted to guarantee that I wouldn't be able to have any kind of perceptible experience of life after being scared half to death enough times, I would want to be scared half to death 33 times.

That would definitely work.
But you could also be scared half to death for the very first time and still have the same experience, so long as your first scare happened mere moments before you actually died.
For example, it could be the sudden realisation that you're literally about to die, which scares you half to death and gives you too little time left to be aware of the rest of your remaining life.

And were you conscious beyond your death (for the sake of discussing this), you'd be left with the belief that you had been scared to death.
So I suppose technically you could maybe say you were "scared half to death to death".

[Smooth]

Let me see how this would apply for me:

Based on current actuarial tables, I have about 59 years left to live. We can model how getting scared to death would affect my lifespan with the following equation:

L = 59*(1/2)^n

L being the years I have left to live, and n being the number of times I've been scared half to death.

So we can use algebra to figure out (roughly) how many times I have to be scared half to death to reach a remaining lifespan of .25 secs and therefore die almost instantly.

.25 secs is hard to convert to years, but I did it anyway: it's 1/(365*24*60*60*4), or 7.92744799594*10^-9

So, therefore
(1/(365*24*60*60*4)) = 59 *(1/2)ⁿ

and n = log_1/2(1/(365*24*60*60*4*59)) = n
n = 32.79

That means if I wanted to guarantee that I wouldn't be able to have any kind of perceptible experience of life after being scared half to death enough times, I would want to be scared half to death 33 times.

wait when did math get involved im confused

[TristanLuigi]

So as you can see, no matter how many times you get scared halfway to death, you will always be at least an infinitesimal distance away from dying.

Only if all scares happen in one moment and time does not pass. See, because time passes while scares come and go, eventually your death will be closer than your next scare, and therefore it matters how many times you're scared half to death; however, the time between the scares matters too.

[Rally]

It's not possible to be "scared to death" unless you literally have a heart attack or something.

How the actual forget did you manage to take this topic this seriously

[Smooth]

How the actual forget did you manage to take this topic this seriously

apparently so