system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How can people sever entire legs and survive the blood loss, while other people bleed out from severing just one artery in their leg?
gpt
Is some cases, when a limb is severed, the major arteries are pulled inside the muscle and the muscle squeezed the open end reducing or preventing blood loss. This only works with complete severing. A partial severing of the arteries will result in severe hemorrhagic blood loss and rapid decline to death.