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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saeviomagy" data-source="post: 6697748" data-attributes="member: 5890">I would disagree on a lot of levels with your analysis. For starters 30s, the maximum time one can 'linger' in D&D is incredibly short compared with the real world. For another, there's no condition in 5e where you are conscious but dying.Most of all, that wasn't really my point. My point was "when you die in D&D, we don't actually know what you died of". If you linger on the threshold, are you bleeding out? Hemorrhaging into your brain? Suffering a cardiac arrest? If you die from massive damage, are you missing a limb? Your head? Or just a lot of blood? Or you just went into shock very quickly? Or you died because your brain ceased operation because of a lack of water? Maybe you're just choking?In short - there is no point where the rules say that your body is in such a state that CPR would be impossible, with the exception of some very specific conditions, like disintegration that aren't curable by revivify anyway.</blockquote>