Often in movies and such when a person is struck in the heart they drop like a sack of potatoes. In real life if someone were to shoot you in the heart how long would you be able to function normally?
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Normally, you drop like a sack of potatoes, like in the movies. Due to shock.
You could potentially continue operating on the stored oxygen in your organs for a minute or so depending on your individual condition. But you will black out fairly quickly and die not long after since you aren’t moving any fresh blood into your brain.
You stay conscious longer when holding your breathe because you still have oxygen in your lungs and oxygenated blood in your body that is circulating.
This is all assuming that the shot completely destroys the heart and its functioning, not just putting a small hole in it that allows it to continue beating with some level of effectiveness.
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