• sudoshakes@reddthat.com
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    26 days ago

    Electrical current firing in the heart can be picked up by EKG, but if there is no blood left in the tube you have no blood pressure.

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        24 days ago

        Eventually, but it’s a muscle. Salt applied to freshly butchered meat will spasm because it’s still muscles with sugars left to burn.

        Same thing like if someone gets decapitated. The heart might still pump for a while and shoot blood out everywhere. Doesn’t mean the person of still alive.