When lightening strikes someone, what exactly happens to their insides to cause death?

Question

When lightening strikes someone, what exactly happens to their insides to cause death?

Answer 1

The electric current can stop your heart, or the heat can actually cook you.

Answer 2

Dont Ask is correct. Lightning carries an average electric current of 30,000 A. That will easily cause a person's pacemaker to malfunction or stop working. The pacemaker is needed to make the heart pump. Without proper function, a person will die.

Answer 3

LEMME TAKE THIS ONE....

REGARDING THEIR INSIDES,

THEIR LARGE INTESTINE LIGHTS UP LIKE A NEON SIGN AND THEN BURSTS. p**p GOES EVERYWHERE.

Answer 4

You would die or your body would be paralized.

The majority of people will:

Suffer the burst of at least one eardrums.

Fall unconsciousness.

Have 3rd degree burns from metal they were in contact with at the time of the strike such as jewelry. There will also be very small, but deep burns at the entry and exit wound sites.

Experience complete (but temporary) paralysis.

Experience bursting capillaries under the skin.

In addition:

Clothing may become shredded, torn off or singed.

Early on, survivors will complain of intense headaches, ringing in the ears, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and other post-concussion types of symptoms.

Long-term effects that 70% of report:

Numbness/Weakness in limbs.

Sleep and memory disorders

Storm Phobia and/or Post Traumatic Stress disorder.

Development of seizure-like activity several weeks or even months after the injury.

Possible personality changes because of frontal lobe damage and increased irritability and anger.