Sunday, September 21, 2008

I was pondering...

While watching some gory horror flicks, I began to wonder how much blood a man can lose, before getting light-headed and fainting. Or even dying out of sheer blood loss.

If you watch any horror flick, you'll see that we are prolly some kind of übermensch, because people on the screen bleed out double the amount of blood a normal human is supposed to have - and walk away like nothing happened.

Maybe we should re-check if the doctors were right...?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It seems to be widely accepted that you can lose 1/3 to 1/2 of your blood before dying, sometimes more dependant on time frame and medical attention etc.
So, that gives the killer 4 pints of blood to liberally apply to the walls.