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[–]Red23 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Those aren't terminal breaths, he died a while back. That's agonal breathing.

[–]thenotoriousdougie 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Kind of like the boner you get when you break your neck??

[–]Fightclub 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Priapism, and no it's not similar to agonal breathing, it's typically because of severe neurological injury secondary to trauma typically. Agonal breathing is a response from a dying brain/body as a last ditch effort to get aone very very shitty inadequate breathes in.