Can you put yourself in cardiac arrest?

Or is that impossible.

I saw it in a movie and wanted to know if it was possible

I am not sure if you mean - can you administer a substance to yourself that would induce a cardiac arrest OR by thinking about it real hard, being in emotional distress, or by performing some extraordinary physical activity, could you induce cardiac arrest?

You could potentially administer any number of substances that would cause the heart to go into an arrhythmia, or go too fast, or stop...all potentially precipitating an arrest. This could be done by mouth or by IV or via electricity.

In terms of making it happen by running too hard or having an emotional event. In short, you would need to have some heart disease there already in order for this to happen. Therefore if you had a young healthy heart, it would be virtually impossible to induce a cardiac arrest by anything you did or by any amount of emotional distress.

that would be intresting to see

Impossible, although students of Eastern Mysteries can sloew their heart beat down to ridiculous levels like just a few beats a minute,,,,;

why would you want to?

I'm sure there are a few people who have enough control over their involuntary nervous system that they could do it; however, for most of us, it's not possible.

stick your finger in a electric socket.

run full speed into a pole.

im sure you can do it if you try hard enuf.

see you in the "odd news" section!

1- Get a car battery.
2- Attach one cable to the negative pole and one to the positive pole and use your body as conductor between the two.
3- Voila!

You can. If you stroke the side or you neck or push down on it hard you can interfere with blood flow if you did this long enough you could probably have a heart attack but it is more likely that you would pass out before this happened. Either way you probably would want to do this.

Of course you can. If you eat unhealthy and smoke your whole life, is that you harming yourself or an act of God?

people do it every day !!!! but only by strong emotion-u know,aunt betty hears news of her husbands sudden death at wal-mart,and she has a heart attack.or james is stuck in traffic for hours,puts in a rough day at work,loses a deal,then fights with his unruly teenager.that night,james wakes up at 3 am with chest pains.thats the only way u would "deliberately" do it.

no....not unless you take an overdose or use some other external means to "kill" youself. You can't just make your heart stop.