I was watching Ken Burns's Vietnam War doc, and there's this story where a guy takes a chest wound and seems to be left to die for hours because no one thinks he's got a chance, and he pulls through.Why do some people manage to survive severe injuries, whereas others die? Like how 50 Cent got shot 9 times, and somehow survived, whereas some other guy can get shot once and dies in minutes.
>>64704006I'm such a fucking moron I spelled grievous wrong.
>>64704006thats kinda just medical questions in generallook at industrial accidents & car crashes, super fucked up shit happens, yet somehow, people survive, markedly sohumans are much tougher than we want to accept & some things are more deadly than we realize, this creates extraordinary instances
The deformation and change in trajectory of a bullet due to impact is an extremely random factor.
>>64704006>seems to beHe faked it like John McCain to sit out the war in comfort.
>>64704048I thought he zunied his carrier deck
>>64704006https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/this-marine-survived-a-shot-from-a-50-cal-at-point-blank-range/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alvin_Beckwith
If a bullet doesn't hit any major arteries or organs lethality drops way down for obvious reasons. If you peruse some of the scientific literature the most survivable gun related injuries are those to the extremities i.e. the arms and legs, injuries to the abdomen after that, then your thorax, and finally the worst place to receive a gunshot injury is to the head. Place with more important stuff = worse your chance of surviving when you get shot there.A lot of it is also just luck of course. One of the places 50 Cent got shot in was his face and it just punctured through his cheek and fragmented into his tongue without doing much significant damage.
Phineas Gage seems pretty hard to beat here, at least for single-injury affairs.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
>>64704006Some guy survived a metal rod going through his head, but it changed his personality and turned him into an unhinged asshole kek. Sometimes blows to the head can give people abilities like becoming a genius over night, being much better at learning languages or in this case being a based mofo who gives no fucks whatsoever.
