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Originally Posted by stubbornforgey
It would be like she was drowing.
Understand that they had to hold all that water without going to the toilet.
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Just read up on it and now I know that beer is waaaaaaaaay safer than water (just like every civilization believed up until the mid 19th century)
Death from too much water is about diluting the salt content of the blood. When salt levels fall in an organ, fluids are forced into the organ as an emergency measure, often swelling that organ. When the organ is the brain, trapped in a bony shell, there is nowhere for the tissue to go when it swells. The tissue literally crushes itself against the inside of the skull causing brian damage and possibly death.