Current Events > How bad do you think it hurts to be stabbed in the stomach by a longsword?

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So many people in history died this way. It's weird to think about.

Pretty bad
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It's definitely not good.
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I bet they'd feel pretty sword afterwards
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Only one way to find out

No, not actually don't do that
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MrK3V posted...

I bet they'd feel pretty sword afterwards

2/5
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Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

MrK3V posted...

I bet they'd feel pretty sword afterwards

2/5

Gotta admire him for taking a stab at it.
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hurt bad enough that samurais would chop off their homie's head to spare them from the suffering
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Megaman50100 posted...

Weezy_Tha_Don posted...

MrK3V posted...

I bet they'd feel pretty sword afterwards

2/5

Gotta admire him for taking a stab at it.

shank you
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I feel like most people that died from long swords didn't die from a stab wound. That type of sword was probably more effective being swong. It would probably suck to get hit with it and maybe the injured did get stabbed in the back of the head after a battle (which would also suck).

It's hard for me to imagine a sword being as sharp and powerful as people say they were/are. Like, could it really cut someone in half in one swing? I can't even cut through a chicken leg with one chop.
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whitelytning posted...

Like, could it reallt cut someone in half in one swing?

I could maybe believe it if it was a real sturdy sword and you were a muscly man putting all momentum into it. But getting through bone must be tough
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So bad you may die from it.
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whitelytning posted...

I feel like most people that died from long swords didn't die from a stab wound. That type of sword was probably more effective being swong. It would probably suck to get hit with it and maybe the injured did get stabbed in the back of the head after a battle (which would also suck).

It's hard for me to imagine a sword being as sharp and powerful as people say they were/are. Like, could it really cut someone in half in one swing? I can't even cut through a chicken leg with one chop.

Stabs are extremely dangerous because they have a high chance of puncturing internal organs, which has a very high fatality rate even today. Beyond that, they also have a high chance of infection.

Slashes, cuts, and hacks are good for immobilizing body parts and cutting arteries, but are less likely to get through a rib cage and cause an immediately deadly blow. A good cutting sword can definitely dismember someone with a clean strike, but chopping clean through a person probably almost never happened. As well, most armor is far better at stopping cuts than stabs, which is why advancements in armor led to developments and popularization of thrusting swords as the ideal dueling armament. Then, when gunpowder made most armor obsolescent, slashing weapons like sabers saw a return to the battlefield for cavalry troops.

Slashes do have a technical advantage in that it is easier to transition between offense and defense with sweeping movements like a cut, and it is easier to feint and redirect a sweeping blow to bypass an enemies guard. Thrusts in saber or longsword dueling tend to become less effective (though still very effective!) at higher levels of the discipline.
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I'm going to reckon your stomach acids leaking into your torso cavity and burning organs not designed to be in contact with acidic substances (like your stomach lining is) is going to contribute to this really quite sucking as you wait for the blood loss to kill you.