Hypothermia

[jenstar]

How long would it take to freeze to death in a standard domestic chest-type freezer? (Great question, doncha think?!)

[IndieSinger]

(Note to jenstar's boyfriend/fianc�/husband: go and hide for a few weeks, and certainly don't take her up on any offers of ice-cream.)

[jenstar]

Don't worry, my husband isn't going in the freezer. I'd have to take the previous three out first. ;o)

[FTVS]

Jenstar, I think you would suffocate before you froze. i don't know the answer disregarding suffocation although apprently average survival in water at 0 degrees C is just over an hour.

[Robinia]

My ex only took an hour to freeze...after I'd made him into sausages.

[sft42]

Water robs the body of heat seven times quicker that the equivilant in air......it would depend on the clothing, body mass etc, but I would anticipate hypothermia would set in fairly quickly and death would probably occur somewhere between 12 and 24 hours but I could be wrong.

[darth vader]

is this a trick question? the answer is you wouldn't as i defy anyone to get an average-sized person into a chest freezer. Being stuck in a standard freezer though, you would go into hypothermia in the first couple of hours depending on clothing and ability to move around (and therefor generate heat). Death usually follows soon after.