Person with diabetes doesn't "die" or lose conciousness if he forgets the insulin unless he "forgets" it for days. And for a diabetic person to lose consciousness it is far more likely he forgot to eat than to forget to take insulin.
It varies for individuals. You can actually feel your sugar levels and you get certain feelings when your blood sugar goes too high or low. Some people get less feelings and some don't get any feelings at all and have to rely 100% to measuring it using a meter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMMpeLLgdgY
A diabetic person who uses insulin usually has to inject himself before or after eating to prevent bloodsugar from rising too high. If you forget to inject you will get bad feeling, headache, nausea and stuff like that first. But the risen blood sugar won't make you pass out if you forget one shot. People, usually kids who develop diabetes have to deal with the diabetes without insulin for weeks in some cases before the disease is found. Lack of insulin kills really slowly. A lot of symptoms appear first.
The one that causes problems is when the blood sugar goes too low. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycemia
That can happen quickly. Simply inject insulin but forget to eat or inject too much insulin. Too much excercise, too little carbohydrates. Miscalculation, human error. People also have different blood sugar levels when they start losing consiousness. Some lose consiousness at higher levels than others. Some can't feel the low blood sugar and don't get any feelings of hunger, hands shaking and discomfort before losing consciousness.
If you forget to take a shot at dinner you will not pass out. Period. If you read your own link from the wikipedia it mainly mentions the chronic high blood sugar levels. And then there is this: "Temporary hyperglycemia is often benign and asymptomatic. Blood glucose levels can rise well above normal for significant periods without producing any permanent effects or symptoms. "
If you forget to eat but take your insulin shot you will pass out if you can't feel it.
Diabetics not getting their insulin injections for few hours and then dying or passing out is just a stupid hollywood cliche that has very little to do with reality. Insulin is not medicine for diabetes that keeps the seizures away. It is a tool for adjusting blood sugar levels.
Unfortunatly, this isn't a joke.
It's an example of police abuse and this image is getting more police action here than the rapes did.
Just so happens that one of the alledged ( self admitted ) rapists is the son of a cop, another is the son of a weathy well known business person.........
Here's a comment from the top D in my region on an unrelated case 2 months ago where he supported a convicted rapist by stating that "a 10 year old girl led him on and asked for it".
And, if you read his apology, it was actually about the statement becoming public, not his opinion. http://www.stuff.co.nz/nationa ... -sorry-about-rape-remarks
