Saturday 13 April 2019

Shot Twenty Times, (& Sixteen) But Survive:

Once again all credit is due to TFB for blogging this first survival story from The New York Times:

Mr Kenny Vaughan way back in 1995 was shot TWENTY TIMES but avoided potentially deadly wounds by making himself hard to hit:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/nyregion/03shot.html

I don't really have anything to add to the article .. But you will no doubt be thinking about it for some time after reading it.

- Another man, Joseph Guzman - was hit sixteen times by police in 2006 but also survived.
- His story linked below is complete with surgical detail:


- I wonder is survival strongly linked to the will to live .. or conversely to the belief that being shot means you are finished? - I'd opine that prompt expert surgical attention is likely more critical eh.

Marty K.

2 comments:

  1. If your blood pressure drops far enough you will die. The will to live thing is survivor bias. The dead can’t tell you whether they had given up or not.

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    1. Good man pleased you are reading & NOW commenting.

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