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Lungs supply oxygen to your blood and they also clear waste carbon dioxide. If they stop working your blood loses oxygen and starts to build up an excess of waste carbon dioxide.

Muscles and other tissue can survive quite a long period without oxygen, but the brain cannot.

Shortage of oxygen to the brain will cause you to lose consciousness. If the oxygen supply is not rapidly restored you can suffer brain damage. If at this stage oxygen supply is restored you can live, though you may have serious problems for many years.

If the oxygen supply is still not restored your brain will stop functioning, though the rest of your body can survive. If at this stage oxygen supply is restored you become a coma patient with little chance or reviving.

And obviously if oxygen supply is never restored, you die.

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