In 79 AD, an eruption of Vesuvius Vulcan completely devastated the Roman town of Pompeii. Hundreds of people died as a result, leaving behind a village destroyed and covered with ashes.
seems that until now there was some controversy about what exactly were the causes of death, especially taking into account the positions where the victims were found.
image: Vesuvius Pompeii ruins (wikipedia)
All the bodies were covered with ash. Some were kept in positions that seem frozen images of normal life, some sleeping and others in positions that indicate a struggle of agony.
The explosion of a volcano, the eruption is accompanied by a mixture of gas, ash and rocks scattered around the mountain at high speed. It is this mixture that we must seek the reason for the deaths and so peculiar posture in which the bodies were. Among the possible causes of death include asphyxiation from lack of oxygen in the smoke, a possible high pressure wave with enough power to destroy buildings or toxic gases that carry a slow death.
Giuseppe 
Mastrolorenzo An alternative offer, Pierpaolo Petrone, Lucia Pappalardo and Fabio Guarino in its publication Thermal Lethal Impact at Periphery of Pyroclastic Surges: Evidences at Pompeii. They conclude that probably the inhabitants of Pompeii were killed by high temperatures between 250 ° C and 300 ° C with an exposure time of only a few minutes. So possibly they were surprised by the avalanche hot ashes without time to seek shelter or, or even to change positions.
This explanation is consistent with the positions of the bodies (see image at right, credit: PLoS ONE). The force of the avalanche was not enough to break their bodies, then excluding that possibility. Choking is a slow process, as is death by poisoning, which causes conflict with the positions that look like statues found capturing movement. Exposure of a human body relativamenta high temperatures, on the other hand, explain why human remains are in such good condition.
And so the killings are cleared in Pompeii.
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