I could understand it...

[ffutures]

...when Angel thought he couldn't give Buffy artificial respiration because he was dead, despite the fact that he could talk and obviously inhaled to do so, because he was essentially an ignorant 18th century idiot.

Owen Harper is a 21st century doctor...

Words fail me.

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[secondsilk.livejournal.com]

Ah. That's cool. I will have to remember. It certainly makes more sense, it's just harder to use as retcon.

Excess carbon dioxide is the trigger for breathing normally, I thought, rather than too little oxygen. I remember an interview with a guy who'd almost died because he'd inhaled too much helium. He was suffocating because he had too little oxygen, but had no desire to breathe - in fact, the first few breaths he forced himself to take were painful.