Method How long could someone walk until they died?

[tunnelV]

Without breaks, without food and water? How many hours or days?

 

[dkrw]

as long as ur not deserted, you will collapse and ppl will call for help

 

[bookgirl]

If you want to choose this as your ctb method then have fun

 

[theboy]

Ffyona Campbell
She walked about 40 km a day, six days a week, completing the journey in 49 days.

having that data, we could infer a lot of things... at least me, I walked for 3 days in a row eating little and sleeping little and I was about to faint.

 

[tunnelV]

If you want to choose this as your ctb method then have fun

It was just a question of curiosity. I wondered if anyone knew the answer if they had ever heard of it.

 

[AkaRed]

Without water, our body can only really survive up to 3 days. If we are being active, I'd imagine that time might decrease a bit- but probably still around the 3 day mark. I'd give it no more than a week if your body absolutely holds out against all odds.

The chances of this as a successful CTB method though are very slim. You're more likely to back out or have someone notice your eventual collapse and call for help. You might need to figure out a route, and I honestly wouldn't make it too difficult for myself if you are intending to exhaust yourself to death.

It would also be relatively painful, I imagine. Severe dehydration and hunger effects are no picnic, and you might just find yourself lying there waiting to die- in a not so peaceful manner.

<3

 

[Ash]

Stephen King wrote a particularly brutal short story about this scenario as Richard Bachman, called The Long Walk.

 

[rozeske]

A lot more than you would expect. There are others actively going through it as a ctb method.

 

[Guy089001]

It honestly depends on your fundamental consciousness I think. What's hidden inside the mind is way more powerful than people realize, same as whatever we put there.

 

[Scorpio moon gal]

Or how long can I go on without sleep until I die

 

[rozeske]

Or how long can I go on without sleep until I die

It doesn't kill you. When your body is tired enough you will pass out and wake up after a long nap

 

[Scorpio moon gal]

What can I do what can I do!!!!
Fine then. I'll go for jumping off a high building
After drinking as much as I can. I'll just jump off.

 

[WoNkEy_DoNkEy]

It doesn't kill you. When your body is tired enough you will pass out and wake up after a long nap

@rozeske sleep deprivation can eventually kill you. Not from a few weeks of bad sleep but over a much longer period it can. Sleep after all is when a lot more happens to our bodies than during the day when it comes to any type of healing or growth etc. The timeframes from person to person I imagine would vary wildly though. And yes I know there are plenty of insomniacs that live through it (albeit that they normally die younger).

What can I do what can I do!!!!
Fine then. I'll go for jumping off a high building
After drinking as much as I can. I'll just jump off.

@Scorpio moon gal
I feel your desperation but sleep deprivation can only kill over a very long period of time and is a horribly torturous thing. I wouldn't be too impulsive with acts of suicide.

 

[LittleBlackCat]

Stephen King wrote a particularly brutal short story about this scenario as Richard Bachman, called The Long Walk.

This was the first thing I thought of

It's a good book

 

[rozeske]

@rozeske sleep deprivation can eventually kill you. Not from a few weeks of bad sleep but over a much longer period it can. Sleep after all is when a lot more happens to our bodies than during the day when it comes to any type of healing or growth etc. The timeframes from person to person I imagine would vary wildly though. And yes I know there are plenty of insomniacs that live through it (albeit that they normally die younger).

No, It doesn't kill you.

 

[willitpass]

@rozeske sleep deprivation can eventually kill you. Not from a few weeks of bad sleep but over a much longer period it can. Sleep after all is when a lot more happens to our bodies than during the day when it comes to any type of healing or growth etc. The timeframes from person to person I imagine would vary wildly though. And yes I know there are plenty of insomniacs that live through it (albeit that they normally die younger).

If you somehow manage to be in a situation where you truly cannot fall asleep, yes it will kill you. But if you aren't being tortured as a POW or don't have the medical condition fatal insomnia, then eventually your mind will nope out and you will fall asleep, even if you're in a loud, bright room. By the time you reach that point though, you'd be having horrible hallucinations. If most people just decided to try and keep themselves awake as long as possible they'd probably make it a day or two before deciding to just have a nap because they can't keep their eyes open any more.

 

[WoNkEy_DoNkEy]

No, It doesn't kill you.

@rozeske Ok fine you're mostly right. It can kill you but if it does it's from a chronic reduction in sleep and would take years if not decades but wouldn't occur directly from the lack of sleep.

 

[rozeske]

@rozeske Ok fine you're mostly right. It can kill you but if it does it's from a chronic reduction in sleep and would take years if not decades but wouldn't occur directly from the lack of sleep.

In short you can't make yourself die from lack of sleep.

 

[WoNkEy_DoNkEy]

In short you can't make yourself die from lack of sleep.

@rozeske If you look anywhere online it does indicate that it 'can' kill you due to long term complications, but if that happens then it takes many years, possibly decades. Some insomniacs over a long period of time have died from that. You should've just left it before because I admitted that within a short-medium timeframe it definitely won't and within a looooonnnggg timeframe it 'can' and 'might' but I'm NOT saying that it will. So definitely not reliable for a suicidal person but not something to take lightly. I hope you can agree with that. I'm just referencing websites and going by what doctors told me when I had a few years of acute insomnia.

 

[rozeske]

@rozeske If you look anywhere online it does indicate that it 'can' kill you due to long term complications, but if that happens then it takes many years, possibly decades. Some insomniacs over a long period of time have died from that. You should've just left it before because I admitted that within a short-medium timeframe it definitely won't and within a looooonnnggg timeframe it 'can' and 'might' but I'm NOT saying that it will. So definitely not reliable for a suicidal person but not something to take lightly. I hope you can agree with that. I'm just referencing websites and going by what doctors told me when I had a few years of acute insomnia.

In short you can't make yourself die from lack of sleep.

When your body is tired enough you will pass out and wake up after a long nap

 

[sanitystruggle]

Actual fatal insomnia is incredibly rare. There are just 70 families in the world who are known to carry the gene associated with the inherited disorder and 37 cases in history of the even more rare sporadic form. It's a neurodegenerative prison disease, like kuru and BSE. The lack of sleep is a symptom rather than the cause (which is the degeneration of brain tissue due to prion accumulation).

Chronic insomnia is associated with a higher risk of death from everything from heart disease to motor vehicle accidents, but actual deaths as a direct result of insomnia in humans (outside FFI/sFI) are anecdotal and not well evidenced. Small studies in animal models show that prolonged forced insomnia is fatal:

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-pdf/12/1/13/13659076/120103.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tTMtZvukDZSCy9YP29Cc0AY&scisig=AFWwaeZkfOFpcxLYSbXeUsOfrOUH&oi=scholarr

In humans sleep deprivation often causes micro sleep - short intervals of lapse in consciousness that the sleeper isn't even aware of.

Outside fiction like the Russian Sleep Experiment this isn't a practical method by any stretch of the imagination.