Respiratory Failure Quotes

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

We could keep his body going, but it was trying its hardest to die.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

When I was a teenager, I was in an iron-lung.

Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago.

I have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. It has crippled my body and speech, but not my mind.

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?