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It seems unlikely that the Texan would...


...die from a blow to the head the way he did.

I mean, if he just immediately died, I might buy it. But doesn't it seem odd that he had the whereabouts to get up, get on the horse and pull two people up from a pit?

Then immediately after that he dies? Not just passes out, but straight up immediately dies!

What do you think about how realistic this is?

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Not 100% sure, but the brain does have different parts. I think its feasible that one could have been damaged fatally and another in tact enough to where he still had his wits and functions about him. I used to know more about the parts of the brain, the only one I can remember right off is the frontal lobe.

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I just assumed the blow knocked him out and he could still function when he woke up but his brain was slowly bleeding and then he was gone



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Fill your hand you son of a bitch!

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Concussions are inconsistent and difficult to predict in their effects. I have heard, and or read of cases in which people have suffered severe concussions, behaved within the normal range of behave for people mildly injured, including performing strenuous activity, and then suddenly died from the effects. The pattern of behavior displayed by LaBoeuf, in the novel and both movie versions of the story, are within the bounds of recorded medical history. However, I will point out that I am not a doctor myself.

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I think you're a dumbass.

Stop posting.

You're too stupid to be here.

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When I was a child in the 1950s I was knocked down by a car outside my school. Ambulance took me to hospital for observation but thought I was OK. The hospital rang my mother to come and collect me.

By the time she organised a lift and got to the hospital, about six miles from home, I was in the operating theatre. I had passed out a few times. It turned out I had suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. An emergency burr holes operation saved me but I was considered lucky to survive. If medical knowledge had not improved since the 1870s I would have
died.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

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I mean, if he just immediately died, I might buy it. But doesn't it seem odd that he had the whereabouts to get up, get on the horse and pull two people up from a pit?

Then immediately after that he dies? Not just passes out, but straight up immediately dies!

What do you think about how realistic this is?



Tell that to Natasha Richardson, who died from a head injury due to a fall when skiing. Head trauma isn't always so quick to kill.

"On March 16, 2009, she received a serious head injury during a private beginner's skiing lesson at Mont-Tremblant, 80 miles outside Montreal. She appeared to be fine, and initially refused treatment. That afternoon, she developed a headache and was taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. That evening, she was transferred to the ICU at Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur in Montréal, where she was declared brain dead. The next day, at her family's request, she was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, where she was removed from life support."

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