How fatal is a stab wound?

Question:

I'm doing some research for a novel and i thought i'd give this a try. My question is, as mentioned, to the fatality of getting stabbed. Where would the most fatal place to be stabbed? Obviously the heart, but lets face it, thats terribly cliche. My original thought was for the character to be stabbed in the stomache until i realized that that would would not cause a quick enough death, since being stabbed in the stomache would leave you alive for several hours bleeding profusely.

Essentially, my question is two questions.

Where is the best place to get stabbed in terms of fatality?

and

How long would it take to die after being stabbed in a major location? (stomache, neck,chest, face, etc.)

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Answers:
you aren't sick. you're a writer..you're twisted. anyways..

i can think of two places. the first (and most obvious) is the neck. not your average throat slicing, but a punctured jugular is very life threatening and dying wouldn't take very long. it's one of the largest blood vessels in the body. this is the best.

another one (slower, but something interesting to try) is the femoral artery. it's in the thigh. it's a large artery in the leg that, if left cleeding, will cause severe blood loss and death. i'm not sure about the time frame on that.

good luck with your novel!

Other Answers:
The Quickest death would be heart, neck, or a major artery in the leg or both lungs.

The stomach is horribly nasty death. Not ponly do you bleed but the stomach acid spews out into your body cavity. Bleh. That could take 1/2 hour or less.

Neck.death comes instantly pretty much or within 2-3 minutes depending on how you cut.

Major artery in the leg.well that would probably take a bit longer maybe 5-10 minutes.

Both lungs would fill with blood in about 2-3 minutes and suffocate the victim.

you sound sick and why would you WANT to know that ? it would prolly take a few minutes or so if the stab wound was serious enough with all the blood loss and all if it struck a enternal organ.

anywhere where there is a vital organ in the human body. the chest, stomach and neck are effective. it would take only minutes for someone to die from being stabbed in the neck.

you bleed out fast if you cut your jugular.thats in your neck.and also your uhh, brachial artery (i think thats what its called) in your arm. as for length, it depends on how deep the wound is and which major organs it hits.

Stomach, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver. Maybe heart would be almost immediate, stomach would take a while (and pain), lungs, don't know, kidneys, probably pretty quick, same for liver. Cut open a major vein in arm or leg and you have maybe 30 munites? Cut the throat and you're finished even if you live a while longer. Right through the eyes or nose and into the brain, probably pretty quick. If you were to hit a major artery, it wouldnt take long at all ( like the ones on the side of the neck and the ones leading into the legs)

You want to write a novel you have to make it your own is not like a movie where you have to live the character. In a novel you paint an immage to the reader to how you should make them feel about it. What you are looking for is either to doit your self or simply write an unrelevant event by a pshycotic individual which is you and your novel will fail.

If you are looking for a non-instant death, but not a long drawn out one, try the major arteries. Femoral is a good one if the injury occurs during a struggle. Jugular or carotid would be a good spot for an attack from behind. I don't have times for bleeding out, but the neck vessels would be faster than the leg. The leg would depend on activity and pressure. If your character is just lying there, it would be a lot longer than if he was running for his life or trapped under something.

Good luck with the novel.

The most fatal place is when the knife stabbed an artery (big blood vessel that come from the heart) and definitly the heart is fatal and then the neck. It's near a heart. A heart is the main generator for blood circulation. It takes minutes. If the stabbed wound in the face area, it takes hours (a lot of tiny blood vessel). The stomach area, it takes minutes sometime hours, depends on how many and kind blood vessel are injured.

the leg, there is a major artery that runs through the jugular vein or corroted atery in the neck is the fastest way id say about 2 minutes. or the eye pushes the blade in to the vein also the windpipe

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