Ask HN: Why not install a filter to prevent choking on food?

Because it's far easier and cheaper to teach people to chew properly. I can't imagine it would be comfortable having a filter lodged in your throat either.

What, do you mean in your windpipe?

Yes.

My first thoughts are:

- How much is this going to interfere with breathing? How much aerobic capacity would I lose?

- How do we prevent this from continuously triggering a gag reflex?

- If it does catch some food, how do we get that food out so that it won’t block the filter?

Wouldn't coughing still work for your third point?

Maybe? But it might stick to the filter.

I think it's called Soylent, if that's still around. Hard to choke on liquefied food.

Still possible to drown.

True enough, but I think, technically speaking, drowning isn't choking... it's suffocation, right?

Though, drowning in Soylent would be a whole 'nother kind of hell. Wouldn't it? Shudder.

Is this a joke question?

No.

I prefer taking the risk of dying.