How to pronounce “thorax” in English

It's where one of the most important needs is being met. Breathing without oxygen, we're dead after a few minutes. So you would think in the beginning whyon earth did our put body put this like passive plumbly lumbly organ there that when you just poke a little needle in your thorax it goes and like shrinkstogether like an old soap foam or something. And the answer is because being soft, being passive, being accommodating isn't necessarily always a