I understand how someone would die if they get shot in the head, but if someone receives a bullet in the abdomen, unless it hits the heart, how does one die within seconds? I don’t think it can be hemorrhage so there must be another reason
In: 0
There is some debate about this. The logic is like this: the body is mostly water. Water is incompressible, more or less. The force of a bullet’s impact therefore rapidly spreads through the body. Some researchers believe this can cause distant injury, like popping small blood vessels in the brain and causing cerebral hemorrhage or otherwise destroying important neurons. That can kill pretty quickly. If it can happen, it definitely doesn’t happen every time, but there are cases in medical literature that support the hypothesis. I got this from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic_shock
Latest Answers