KLA2 wrote:I think it is fairly well documented that a person shot through the heart dies instantly.
Yahoo Answers wrote:If you get shot through the heart why do you die immediately? Why is there not a slight delay before you die?
You do not die "instantly".
First, it depends on the nature of the cardiac injury. Some injuries can be repaired, and you don't die at all. Others produce a leakage of blood and poor perfusion of the heart and other vital organs, and in that case, you'd take minutes to hours to die. Massive injury to the heart muscle would cause exsanguination into the chest and a quicker death, on the order of minutes.
In order for you to be completely dead, your brain has to stop functioning. WIthout any blood (and therefore, oxygen) going to the brain, you'd pass out in a few minutes, but your brain would continue to function for several minutes more. Even if you are resuscitated after a severe injury, anoxic injury to the brain would likely leave you a vegetable.
Blue Monster 65 wrote:Or at the height of "la petit mort." :D
Enzo wrote:I am reminded of the old bit of wisdom that if you die in a dream, you will really die in the flesh. I always wondered: how would anyone know that?
umop ap!sdn wrote:...and nobody lives forever...
Lance wrote:KLA2 wrote:I think it is fairly well documented that a person shot through the heart dies instantly.
Or not...Yahoo Answers wrote:If you get shot through the heart why do you die immediately? Why is there not a slight delay before you die?
You do not die "instantly".
First, it depends on the nature of the cardiac injury. Some injuries can be repaired, and you don't die at all. Others produce a leakage of blood and poor perfusion of the heart and other vital organs, and in that case, you'd take minutes to hours to die. Massive injury to the heart muscle would cause exsanguination into the chest and a quicker death, on the order of minutes.
In order for you to be completely dead, your brain has to stop functioning. WIthout any blood (and therefore, oxygen) going to the brain, you'd pass out in a few minutes, but your brain would continue to function for several minutes more. Even if you are resuscitated after a severe injury, anoxic injury to the brain would likely leave you a vegetable.
I am learning far more about this than I ever wanted to know.
MM_Dandy wrote:Not even in Blazing Saddles? :D
I'm pretty sure no one is shot through the heart in that flick.
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