Ask me, what is the worst way to die?
Getting stabbed in the chest? No.
Being shot in the stomach? Nada.
Eaten by a pack of wild hyenas? Hmm, getting close. But no.
Without a doubt, I'd say radiation poisoning tops my list.
When you're exposed to large amounts of radiation, skin just kinda starts falling off your bones.
This is because your body, once exposed to a significant dose of radiation, collapses on a cellular level. In fact, your DNA starts to breaks down, so then your cells don't get replaced, at all.
This is because your cells start to kill themselves off. Why, you ask?
Well, they recognise the damage the radiation has caused, go 'oh shit, this is very bad', and undergo the biological process known as Apoptosis.
Apoptosis is normally the standard operating procedure within the human body, which intentionally kills off your cells. It happens all the time.
Cancer generally occurs because apoptosis has stopped happening.
The problem lies in the fact that human biology has absolutely no bloody idea what to do about acute radiation poisoning.
And because the human body doesn't know how to respond to this alien phenomenon, your cells see no other alternative other than to commit mass suicide, all at once.
This is the last-ditch effort to protect the body from radiation.
Obviously it dosen't work. You die.
Crikey.
Getting stabbed in the chest? No.
Being shot in the stomach? Nada.
Eaten by a pack of wild hyenas? Hmm, getting close. But no.
Without a doubt, I'd say radiation poisoning tops my list.
When you're exposed to large amounts of radiation, skin just kinda starts falling off your bones.
This is because your body, once exposed to a significant dose of radiation, collapses on a cellular level. In fact, your DNA starts to breaks down, so then your cells don't get replaced, at all.
This is because your cells start to kill themselves off. Why, you ask?
Well, they recognise the damage the radiation has caused, go 'oh shit, this is very bad', and undergo the biological process known as Apoptosis.
Apoptosis is normally the standard operating procedure within the human body, which intentionally kills off your cells. It happens all the time.
Cancer generally occurs because apoptosis has stopped happening.
The problem lies in the fact that human biology has absolutely no bloody idea what to do about acute radiation poisoning.
And because the human body doesn't know how to respond to this alien phenomenon, your cells see no other alternative other than to commit mass suicide, all at once.
This is the last-ditch effort to protect the body from radiation.
Obviously it dosen't work. You die.
Crikey.
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