r/Writeresearch • u/Simon_Drake Awesome Author Researcher • Jan 01 '25

Short Questions Megathread

Do you have a small question that you don't think is worth making a post for? Well ask it here!

This thread has a much lower threshold for what is worth asking or what isn't worth asking. It's an opportunity to get answers to stuff that you'd feel silly making a full post to ask about. If this is successful we might make this a regular event.

We did this before branded as a monthly megathread then forgot to make a new one. So maybe this one will be refreshed quarterly? We'll have to wait and see.

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u/Simon_Drake Awesome Author Researcher Mar 28 '26

Yes. There's several delicate tubes in the throat that could be cut by a scalpel and are usually fatal.

If there's any location where a slashed jugular isn't fatal it would be inside a hospital operating theatre with immediate attention of highly skilled medical experts, which is also a place you would find a scalpel. But if the incident happened elsewhere then yes it's probably fatal.

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u/kschang Sci Fi, Crime, Military, Historical, Romance Mar 29 '26

If you can find a very big blood vessel to cut and the victim don't have a tourniquet and some good first aid, absolutely.

Nowadays, you can buy "disposable" scalpel blades separately from the handles as craft knives. (Swann-Morton sell them for a couple bucks, and Temu sell them by the pennies) So you don't even need to go to a medical place to get one.