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Human bodies are both shockingly resilient and fragile as fuck at the same time. With enough adrenaline we can run on broken ankles. It will hurt to high heaven later on but it may just be enough of a temporary gain to GTFO from something bad.
A lot of body parts are sufficiently unimportant that damage to them is overall a minimal problem. Sure you might end up with no hands/arms/feet/legs but being quadriplegic isn't fatal, it just sucks, and that's why there are worse things than death. Being pregnant may have actually saved her depending where the stabs were and as per the article they were near the baby so her very likely very enlarged abdomen which was mostly filled with amniotic fluid and a small 8 month developed baby would have presented itself as a very easy target that for the most part wasn't immediately containing vital organs. Because of that the baby was probably more lucky as it would have been significantly more at risk when consider body areas/volumes and important structures.
Conversely the guy behind the Atkin's diet, Dr Robert Atkins MD [Cardiology specialty]:
Sure he was old[er] but his death was neither a result of his age nor his dietary suggestions despite some attempts which will be made to claim such. Anyone can slip on ice and hit their head the wrong way and it highlights that some parts of the body just can't take a hit.
A well place and timed punch to the solar plexus can interrupt the heart leading to death.
A properly executed chokehold will drop pretty much anyone within 3-5 seconds because it shuts off blood to the brain. Won't matter how built someone is and sometimes that leads to other problems/injuries out of some false expectation you can power through something.
Once knew a guy doing Ju-Jitsu who was a club doorman/bouncer. Big fucking dude, the kind that had a physical presence going for him that would deal with most problems before they ended up physical however for those times it did happen he still put the time in to learn what could be done to avoid injuring himself, and to a lesser extent the morons trying to attack him while drunk. Anywho, takes part in a demonstration, gets put in an armlock by the guy giving the class. Big dude is locked down and cannot get out but still voices he thinks he can because of his muscle. Gets told it won't happen and if he reeeally thinks he can get out then to try but only after being warned several times it's a REEEALLY bad idea.
Ends up tearing his own muscles because the armlock was never, ever going to be what gave way which meant the only thing that could was the locked body. Didn't see him for a few months after that unsurprisingly and when he came back he was far more humble about trying similar things.
I know just a bit of dark humour on my part, I have seen WAY too many clips where it looks like a knife graced a guy to have him lying in a pool of his own blood seconds later.
Definitely, clip the femoral or carotid arteries or even the jugular veins and you can and will bleed out within a few minutes without immediately medical aid. Something regardless.
How do you know all this?
I just do /shrug
Overall I just have very good memory retention as well as various traits relating to connecting things in ways most don't or won't consider. Call it autism or apophenia or whatever it's just how I work.
A lot of this is just general biology info dealing with the endocrine system and other critical vascular pathways and what happens when those systems are stimulated, even just in minor ways.
The ankle/adrenaline thing is one of the reasons we as a species are so successful because we can take a horrendous amount of punishment compared to other animals that would go into shock far more readily then die. Meanwhile humans have hyper-reactive scar tissues so while we might later look like we have gone through a meat grinder, and in some cases involving animals attacks technically have done, it's still something that can be survived.
Keep in mind as a species we can walk down horses. Not run them down, walk them down. We can't out run a horse, at least not in the short term, but we can walk, and walk, and walk for hours and hours to the point anything we choose to chase eventually dies to exhaustion or from being herded off a steep drop. If that doesn't work we use tools and throw sticks and rocks.
But that's not to say we still aren't easily stopped. Fuck up the sinoatrial node of the heart in some way or interrupt the regular heart beat and you can cause a heart attack. Turn off blood/oxygen to the brain for only a few seconds and we collapse. It gets folded into a loose concept of a "rule of 3s". 3 seconds without blood/oxygen to the brain, 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food, although that last one is heavily depending on existing fat stores and will still likely have the latter days spent in a coma plus lasting damage to other tissues if/when they start being broken down under emergency conditions.
Atkins makes for a useful bit of info when arguing against topics where false claims are made about certain deaths.
Ju-Jitsu thing is a lived experience which details both human nature attempting to overcome a situation not fully understood as well as the physical limits that can be placed on the body. Also what it sounds like when a bodybuilder tears his own deltoid/trapezius because of not listening to someone who knows better.
tl;dr internet + probable undiagnosed autism + an IQ around 150
A different instructor who was visiting one time once said "No rules in a street fight". He taught people how to survive being attacked and if that involved a low blow with a swift kick then you gave a low blow with a swift kick because the alternatives meant a list of injuries quickly piling up as things went on over the next few seconds.