is it a necessary consequence of losing your spine, that you die?
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You would need surgery to support the rib cage(and therefore diaphragm), and pelvis(your organs), but in absolute ideal circumstances, no.
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With the right future tech, you could live as a brain in a jar -- but it's hard to conceive of a current survivable despining circumstance.
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You'd lose all autonomic control in descendent pathways and SNS causing neurogenic shock, dysrrhythmia, arrhythmic heart beat, hypotension.
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Pretty sure, not that confident that the brain maintaing organs can operate indepentendly of spinal enervation.
