Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6863431-20150103062825/@comment-24994749-20150223220538

A broken spine is more likely to leave you paralytic or tetraplegic (depending at what height it broke and the nature of the nerve damage) than to kill you. As long as you don't suffer severe damage in your vytal organs and receive fast medical attention so you don't bleed out, you should be as fine as a person in a wheelchair can be.