Talk:The Russian Sleep Experiment/@comment-24967092-20140521050759

Creepy story, but if the muscles of the ribcage were ripped open exposing the lungs, even if the diaphragm was intact, no vacuum could happen (low air pressure in the expanding sealed ribcage causes higher pressure air outside to flow into the lungs via the mouth and trachea), so there could be no breathing, and no life.