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Anonymous
Since this is the most relevent board I'll post it here, but why do you stab someone in the kidney in order to kill them? What makes it more lethal than other abdominal organs?
>> Anonymous
massive rapid blood loss
>> Anonymous
Q: Would a stab or gunshot wound to the kidneys be fatal by themselves, or would more damage be required?

A: Well, a wound to the kidney could eventually be fatal if you didn't get help soon enough, but it wouldn't be like a wound to the heart or spleen -- something with a lot of blood where you could bleed to death in minutes.

The main problem with a stab or gunshot wound to the kidney would be that the kidney might go into "failure", meaning it would stop producing urine. Fortunately, most people have two working kidneys, so if one dies, the other one can take over and you would not need dialysis to get rid of all the waste products in the blood. If both your kidneys died, it'd probably take days to die from that. The waste products (namely ammonia) would build up and you'd evenutally go into a coma and die. Another type of kidney failure (which actually happens first, before it totally quits making urine) would be that the kidney makes a whole bunch of very dilute urine. You could die quicker from that because you would get dehydrated pretty fast. Again, it would take many hours to die from that too, though. You'd probably die from electrolyte imbalances or lack of fluid (your blood pressure drops too low).
>> Anonymous
>>351282

Bleeding and infection are also possible, but not as much of a danger as with other organs.

The other thing that prevents people from dying right away just from a kidney wound is that you've got two kidneys (at least most people do -- some people don't, and don't know it, or they have only one that works). You have to knock both of them out to have a problem big enough to kill you right away. And in a shooting or fight, it's not very likely that both kidneys would get badly wounded. Also, if your kidneys stop working, there's always dialysis. People live for years without working kidneys -- they just have to go to dialysis several times a week. It's a very hard life and not any fun, but they can live, hopefully long enough to get a kidney transplant.

Basically, if you wanted to kill a character off right away, you'd better pick something besides or in addition to a kidney wound. If you want a long, drawn-out death, kidney wounds would work. Now doesn't that sound morose?
>> Anonymous
Toxic shock, rapid blood loss.

The kidneys are filtration centers that have a heavy blood flow. If you were to puncture one, several things would happen:

A: The unprocessed toxins in the kidney would be released into the rest of the body, bad shit.

B: The heavy bloodflow to the kidney is now flowing out of the hole in the kidney, decreasing the time it will take for the wound to bleed out, not to mention causing quite a bit of internal bleeding as well

C: If your kidney gets fucked up, its not going to be able to filter your blood. This isnt as important at the point of the intial injury, but it will fuck you up in the mid-long term afterwards.

Inb4 you argue with a qualified professional
>> Anonymous
>>351251

Excretion of waste products

>The kidneys excrete a variety of waste products produced by metabolism, including the nitrogenous wastes: urea (from protein catabolism) and uric acid (from nucleic acid metabolism) and water.
>> Anonymous
>>351284
Strange how the military trains it's special forces to stab
someone's kidney instead of slashing their throat.
>> Anonymous
How fast would poison kill someone if you stabbed them with a laced weapon?
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
Also, stabbing them in the armpit is extremely effective. Didn't they also do that in Casino Royale? Some major artery is there... I dunno what (that's what Google is for, I guess).
>> I posted this on another board, but I decided I needed a larger audience. Anonymous
>>351334

Actually if you read the "Disposal of a Sentry" manual for the US Army (which might as well be called "how to sneak up on a guy and kill him") it says you can do both a kidney attack or a throat cut or (if memory serves me) 15 other methods of murdering someone. They say go for the kidney because it means instant shock and they won't scream or yell for other guards. Throat cutting results in the vocal cords being slashed which results in the same thing. But both are in the book.
>> Anonymous
didnt bother reading down far because all the answers were so stupid

roughly 1/4 of the blood vol is passed through the kidneys per min at a resting state

so 1/8 per kidney

add in the 'fight or flight' and doubled HR+ elevated BP...you'll probably be dumping 1/4 of your blood in a minute out of a nice knife hole.

/sweet prince
>> Anonymous
>>351402
I didn't know that, thanks.