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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 5145920, member: 105098&quot;]I am afraid I have to agree and disagree with you here brother. No you will not suffocate of you covered all of your skin with paint or something so air can&#039;t get at it. As long as you can breathe you will not suffocate. </p><p><br /></p><p>HOWEVER, there are a host of side affects. you outer layers of skin does get it&#039;s oxygen from the air/atmosphere surrounding it same like your eyes, not the blood. Your skin cells can die off given enough time blocked from oxygen and putrefy. covering your skin can also send your body into shock or raise your body temp to unsafe levels. you can die from shock or heatstroke let&#039;s say.</p><p><br /></p><p>the movie is a myth 100%, we breathe through our lungs not our skin, so suffocation isn&#039;t possible unless mouth and nose were covered also.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT there is a grain of truth there, the outer layer of skin does need oxygen and our circulatory system (blood) doesn&#039;t provide oxygen to the outer layer of skin cells. if you covered them for a long enough time, like a couple weeks, you&#039;d probably die from shock or heatstroke, but if not, your skin would be dead and in would be dying deeper and deeper, much like how bedsores work, it would be unpleasant to say the least if it didn&#039;t lead to something worse than unpleasant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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