consultingcaitlin:Just a side note on the “Did Mary mean to kill Sherlock” wank:I’ve seen a couple...

consultingcaitlin:

Just a side note on the “Did Mary mean to kill Sherlock” wank:

I’ve seen a couple posts which seem to think a little cardiac arrest is more along the lines of having a bad day, rather than being really quite dead.

Don’t believe what movies and television tell you. 

IRL, survival rates of external defibrillation after a cardiac arrest due to traumatic injury are fairly dismal, hovering around 18-25 percent from what I can glean, and have not improved much in the past 40 years…and the improvement gained is entirely due to the increased use of AEDs installed in public places.

Sherlock’s survival was an absolute miracle…and also a bit of cheap emotional shorthand, which Mofftiss is never, ever above doing in order to underscore thier points.

In short: she totally intended to kill his ass dead, and went for the heart rather than the head in order to buy time to escape. (And also, cheap emotional shorthand. See above.)

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