Paradoxical Things People Do While Freezing to Death | Hide And Die Syndrome

Опубликовано: 07 Апрель 2025
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There are two things most people dying from hypothermia will do in their final minutes alive. They’ll dig holes and take off their clothes.

So bundle up, make yourself a hot cup of cocoa, and let’s get started with the hole digging.

Nobody’s entirely sure as to why this people dig holes. We’re can’t exactly study the end stages of hypothermia on human subjects because of the obvious ethical reasons. Any scientific experiment studying this would be massively inhumane. There is one slight exception though, which I’ll talk about at the end of the video.

The commonly accepted reason is that this burrowing is an instinct from our more bestial days. We’re trying to get into an enclosed space to conserve heat.

Fortunately for the dear viewers of my videos, we do know why we exhibit the second behavior while suffering from hypothermia. While it may seem paradoxical for one to be compelled to take off their clothes while freezing to death, it does actually make sense when you look a layer deeper.

No, these unfortunate souls aren’t removing their clothes to try to shorten their time spent suffering.

As I’m sure my viewers living in cold areas can attest to, being in sub-freezing temperatures if quite painful. The extreme cold not only saps all the heat from your body, but frostbite also damages your nerves in the process.

The sensation of one’s nerves being frozen to death can only be described as “an intense burning”. It’s this burning sensation that people suffering from hypothermia are trying to escape from when they strip off their clothes. In their mind, their body is burning up. And the only way to reverse the process and cool down is to take off their clothes.

Final note: y'all remember how I said that there's a slight exception to the "no studies on human hypothermia"?

Unfortunately, that’s only half true. It’s true that in the 21st century, an experiment that involves freezing other human beings to death to study their behavior is completely immoral, but there have been experiments in the past.

The Nazi were clearly unburdened by the ideas of ethics and morality.

Enter: The Dachau Human Hypothermia Study.
Watch the video instead of reading the description box to learn more :)