why dont you die instantly with a stab wound to your lungs?

Question

im a pre med student

Answer 1

Because your lungs aren't just empty bags of air, which leaks out when they are punctured. They are millions of tiny air sacs. Damage to some of these does not cause immediate death.
Death occurs, as previously mentioned, when they fill with blood, so that oxygen exchange can't take place, or when the lung can't be inflated by the ribcage, so it remains collapsed.
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Answer 2

because the instant death of a person depends on the level of injury he gets in the particular organ..
everything has a time span of life..
even the heart and the brain , when stabbed, sliced or cut open still has a time span of life which is determined by the level of injury it received..

you ere a pre-med student.. remember the dissection of the frog? the last task on the process was to count the number of heartbeats before and after the heart was removed from the frog...

hope i helped...

Answer 3

People normally die because the knife or the sharp object hits a major organ and/or you bleed out. I would say the survival rate of stab wound victim in the gut would depend on if the weapon hit an organ...Hope this helps ^.^

Answer 4

I have two lungs. If the other doesn't collapse, then I can still breathe, although each inhalation will be mighty painful.

Answer 5

You will die when;

1. you bleed to death
2. you drown from your lungs filling with blood.