As I was watching Adam Carolla’s new show “Too Late with Adam Carolla” and he brought up a good point. He was showing clips from the movie Con Air where Nicholas Cage palm-upercuts a guy and kills him. I’ve always heard that hitting a person upwards in the nose could kill them, but Adam said something that may have changed my mind. “Mike Tyson has thrown a hundred upercuts and never killed a single person, but this guy did it in one hit. It must be when you open the hand, that must be it.”
So, can it? Can you kill someone by uperccuting them?
Anything can kill you. Walking to the bathroom can kill you if the right sequence of cause / effect happen.
With an uppercut, if you hit the right piece of bone with the right amount of force, you could cause an acceleration of the head such that the inertia of the stationary brain causes it to slam against the skull (what happens with a concussion) severly enough to cause the brain to bleed, and ultimately cause death. Is it likely on any 1 uppercut? No, but I’m sure it’s happened.
You can die from drinking too little water, from drinking too much water, from walking down steps, from pooping too much, from ingesting a small microbe that ravages your body, from picking up a crate of dishes, from playing sports, from stepping out of the shower…anything.
I guess it’s not surprising…the only thing every person in the world will get to do is die. (I may sound like a pessimist who’s infatuated with death, but it’s really the opposite…I just live life as well as I can and don’t worry about our mortality…when something comes along to kill me, I guess it’ll surprise me. )
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