Intuitively, I would expect water in your lungs to be rather unpleasant,
Pointing the following out is a little pedanterrific on my part, but in a typical drowning, very little water enters the lungs until after unconsciousness (and in a minority of drownings, until after cardiac arrest).
Edit: I would nonetheless expect most drownings to be unpleasant for the same reasons as any other involuntary asphyxiation (but not all).
Pointing the following out is a little pedanterrific on my part, but in a typical drowning, very little water enters the lungs until after unconsciousness (and in a minority of drownings, until after cardiac arrest).
Edit: I would nonetheless expect most drownings to be unpleasant for the same reasons as any other involuntary asphyxiation (but not all).
:s/lungs/airways/
The point seems to hold. Involuntary laryngospasm wouldn’t do much good if the organism experienced no distress or desire to leave the water.
That said, thanks for pointing that out. I really should know better than to say “Intuitively, I would expect” and then not bother to do the research.