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Starvation, suffocation, and dehydration are all root causes of death in human beings. Dehydration can take 3-10+ days, starvation can happen in weeks to months, and suffocation occurs in a manner of minutes. How do these processes negatively impact homeostasis so severely that they cause death? Why is there such a discrepancy in the time involved? How are these processes all connected?

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Starvation, suffocation, and dehydration takes different time to death of human.

Step-by-step explanation:

Starvation takes more time to put the human into death because there are reserves of food in our body which can be used by our body in order to survive when these reserves ends up, the human die. In suffocation, human die in less time because oxygen is needed by our body to produce energy for doing activities so if there is no oxygen leads to no energy so the cells die, while on the other hand, dehydration also takes less time to starvation because our body need water to remain turgor and for the circulation of blood in the body if there is no water, no circulation occurs that leads to death.

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