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Starvation takes too long, at least 6 weeks. You would get very bored just waiting to die. If you want to die of dehydration, heading off into the desert in high summer without any water would do it. You probably wouldn't last 12 hours.
From everything I have read it would still take days even in the desert. I have gone b4 6 days dry hunger strike. No food. No liquids. My personal record. It varies individual to individual how long it supposed to take. From everything I have read. Minimum 3 days but that would be someone in very poor physical condition to start with. Recently I read a couple sources on the Internet that the average is 10 days.
If you are out in 50 degree heat (centigrade = 122 degres fahrenheit), doing something active (like walking away from civilisation), in dry air, and with no water, you won't last 12 hours. I can pretty much guarantee that.
Won't last even 12 hours? Guarantee? You sound very certain. What is your source of information? Because everything I have read is telling me it would take way longer. I read 1 source describing that exact scenario. It wasn't in the context of ctb but more like a survival manual for people contemplating being out in the desert for whatever reason for a number of days and it specifically said if you are stuck out there with no food or water or other hydrating liquid it takes 3-6 days b4 u die.
It depends on the temperature. At 50 degrees centigrade, you won't last long. (At cooler temperatures you can survive for several days without water, but that's not relevant to my previous posts.)
Maybe. The source I read didn't go into temperature variables. But in the desert there are temperature extremes. Usually about 50 degrees F difference between high and low temperature per 24 hours.
It's easy to go 6 days without food, and it won't do you any harm. Eventually though, after a few weeks, you start to lose your strength.
It's easier to go no solid food for sure. You lose strength and energy way b4 a few weeks but are we still talking desert conditions? Wouldn't hot and humid be worse? I read 1 source that said what you are saying and I read others that said no food or water or any hydrating liquid average is 10 days meaning that it could take longer. I'm about ready to try this again and it ain't easy but I'm trying to get context for what to expect. Like I was into day 6 b4 but things like idk did I accidentally absorb water when I brushed my teeth for example. Couldn't be more than a few drops. I'm not contemplating being in desert but probably hot and humid place depending on the weather.
I'm also going to add if you give up half way through, you could end up with permanent metabolic and organ damage. I'm not trying to discourage you but this is a very risky method and you need to make sure you are aware of every factor.
Hot and humid is different from hot and dry. Hot and humid means you are more likely to die of hyperthermia. Hot and dry you are more likely to die of dehydration.
If you're not eating, whether drinking fluids or not, the actual cause of death is usually going to be dehydration which will kill most people long b4 starvation.
