The gas and ash may have caused asphyxiation. Or it may have killed Pompeii’s residents with a thermal shock that rapidly cooked their bodies. This causes instant muscle stiffening, known as cadaveric shock - which would explain the apparent grasping poses seen in many of Pompeii’s victims.

“The individual in the photo is an adult man, killed by the hot pyroclastic surge, with both arms and legs flexed due to the heat,” says Dr Petrone, a volcanologist who’s been studying the Vesuvius victims for 25 years.

“Most of the human victims found in Pompeii often show ‘strange’ position of arms and legs, due to the contraction of limbs as a consequence of the heat effect on their bodies after death occurred,” he told The Daily Dot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4462586&forum_id=2!#39711718)

The gas and ash may have caused asphyxiation. Or it may have killed Pompeii’s residents with a thermal shock that rapidly cooked their bodies. This causes instant muscle stiffening, known as cadaveric shock - which would explain the apparent grasping poses seen in many of Pompeii’s victims.

“The individual in the photo is an adult man, killed by the hot pyroclastic surge, with both arms and legs flexed due to the heat,” says Dr Petrone, a volcanologist who’s been studying the Vesuvius victims for 25 years.

“Most of the human victims found in Pompeii often show ‘strange’ position of arms and legs, due to the contraction of limbs as a consequence of the heat effect on their bodies after death occurred,” he told The Daily Dot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4462586&forum_id=2!#39711719)

https://nypost.com/2020/11/21/two-male-bodies-master-and-slave-unearthed-in-ruins-of-pompeii/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4462586&forum_id=2!#41413079)