It better be because it sure looks like it went right through the damn aorta - you know, the single biggest and most important artery in the vertebrate body coming out of the heart. Quoth Wikipedia at length:
Traumatic aortic rupture, also called traumatic aortic disruption or transection, is a condition in which the aorta, the largest artery in the body, is torn or ruptured as a result of trauma to the body. The condition is frequently fatal due to the profuse bleeding that results from the rupture. Since the aorta branches directly from the heart to supply blood to the rest of the body, the pressure within it is very great, and blood may be pumped out of a tear in the blood vessel very rapidly. This can quickly result in shock and death.
That's survivable if the victim gets serious medical attention (as in trauma surgery) quickly enough but even that's bigtime chancy:
Death occurs immediately after traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta 75%–90% of the time since bleeding is so severe, and 80–85% of patients die before arriving at a hospital. Of those who live to reach a hospital, 23% die at the time of or shortly after arrival.
...that scene should be an awful lot messier. D:
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