Why does a headshot usually mean immediate “turn off” for the brain?
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Before I started med school, my first ever clinical experience was a person with multiple gunshots to the head and pieces of white matter dripping onto his face. He still had a pulse. That’s not to say that shots to the head aren’t devastating, they obviously are, but there are plenty of people who have survived a shot to the head, which is to say that headshot isn’t “an immediate” turn of of brain function. It depends which areas of the brain are impacted.
Whether or not you would want to survive with the type of damage that’s often seen in such cases is a different question.
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