Re: Weather question
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<font color="blue">I'm guessing you have never seen a person suffering from hypothermia. </font>
No I have never personally witnessed someone dying from hypothermia. I AM an avid skier who has taken courses in both rescue and avalanche survival and thought I would have heard about this though. Weird. Maybe I wasn't paying attention when this came up.
At any rate, I assume you're talking about SLOW hypothermia as in the an above freezing or a water scenario. I would think a below freezing scenario, frost bit etc., would set in diminishing the desire or ability to take one's clothes off.
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It is odd isn't it? But I would imagine even in slow hypothermia, your brain would tell you the same thing. It probably has to do w/ your nerve endings. I would think the pain involved in severe cold would be the same as in severe burns. Maybe that's why they take off their clothes.
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