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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 314245" data-attributes="member: 1518">Well...The loss of an arm or leg is NOT neccessarily fatal.I read in the news a while back about a lumberjack in Canada who was trapped when a log fell on his leg.He self-amputated his own leg , then hopped over to his truck and managed to drive himself to a hospital.  After he was cleaned and bandaged, he managed to drive back to where he cut off his leg, where the doctors recovered the limb and reattached it.In some history book, I read about a mountain man in the 1830s who was abandoned by his expedition because he broke his leg in three places and couldn't be fixed.  He self-amputated his own leg with a knife, then cauterized the stump in his campfire He survived to the ripe old age of 68.As for the loss of a lung, well, a person can survive with just one lung.  As long as you don't get a fatal blood clot from the wound, you can survive.  You just won't be able to hold your breath as long.As for a wound to the abdomen, the famous pirate Blackbeard survived 5 gunshot wounds to the abdomen and stomach.  He only died by bleeding to death.  Of course, the problem with pierced intestines is that the bacteria will get into the abdomenal (sp?) cavity and cause a horrendous, often-fatal infection.Pierced heart?  Generally instant death.  If such a wound doesn't kill you instantly, then you'll prbably bleed to death.  Of course, if the heart was only GRAZED, and not PIERCED, you could possibly live through it, IF you were given some sort of medicine to bring the internal bleeding under control...Miscellaneous RL examples of people surviving horrendous wounds include:Anyone who lost an arm or leg.All the people mentioned above.The pirate Blackbeard survived TWENTY FIVE GUNSHOT WOUNDS and a cut throat.  He lingered for about half an hour's worth of fighting before collapsing from blood loss.The Viking berserkers, who were known to survive multiple seemingliy mortal wounds after working themselves into a state of ecstatic frenzy.</blockquote>

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