When hit by lightning usually a person dies instantly? I need this in a true/false answer?

Question

In general when hit by lightning a person dies instantly?

Answer 1

lightning kills by overloading and more or less "shorting out" the system of electrical impulses that our heart uses to know when to beat.  electrocution sends the body into cardiac arrest, and without blood supply, death is very quick. brain damage in as little as 2 minutes, and death in as little as three. it's probably not instant, so i'll say false,  but if you're unconscious, it may as well be.  I might add that the majority of people hit by lightning survive. either someone is close by to give them cpr and call for help, or they're just really tough.

Answer 2

Since nobody has died and come back from being killed by a lightning strike, we don't know.

What we do know is that if a person that is really zapped with a charge of electricity that takes them out, it is quick.  How you qualify the term "instantly" is debatable because, as I said, nobody has been there and can describe it.

Based on what we see, though, your answer would probably be true.

Answer 3

maybe

Answer 4

False.  People survive lightning strikes all the time.

Answer 5

No, many persons have been hit by lightning to die years later of old age. I guess it depends on how severe the shock was. Some die instantly, others take a while, others recover completely.

Answer 6

well, think of what happens, then apply the rule of 3's. when you get zapped, your heart stops beating. according to the rule of 3's, you can go 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, or 3 weeks without food before you're dead. so it takes 3 mintues after your heart stops to kill you

Answer 7

the answer is yes!!!!!



Thunder and lightning really are very frightening

Michael Haffenden, 49, a father of three from Devon, had been dangling his legs in the water of his rented villa in Italy when the skies darkened. As thunder and lightning rent the air, his children scrambled out of the pool. Suddenly, lightning struck the water and he was killed instantly.

In Cuba, eight-year-old Grace Meek from Scotland was walking along a beach during a rainstorm when a bolt of lightning hit her and she, too, died instantly