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I've been trying to find this out on Google, but so far no convincing answers. How does someone die when a whale swallows him/her. Is the stomach acid responsible for killing (if yes, which acid and how long does it take)? Or, is the person crushed by the whales' organs or is it something else? -- Just Curious.

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Drowning? Is there evidence that this has actually ever happened? – kmm♦ Nov 10 '12 at 14:59
Drowning is a possibility. Okay, how about other fishes if not other human beings? – TJ- Nov 10 '12 at 16:16
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I suspect people will be turned away from this question by: 1) how silly it sounds, 2) how obvious the answer is (it takes someone 2 minutes to drown, whereas digestion takes hours). But the question about fish is actually interesting (I suspect it's also "drowning", asphyxiation due to the inability of fish gills to extract oxygen from digestive juices in the whale's stomach). – Shep Nov 11 '12 at 13:45

closed as off topic by leonardo, Daniel Standage, kmm♦, jonsca, Marta Cz-C Nov 11 '12 at 13:58

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