User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../"There is a man I must kill!"/@comment-1940096-20140719024237/@comment-2226235-20140722193015

The only reason anyone would know that is if A. they worked in the medical field or B. they googled it to prove a theory that they had no evidence for. Since Oda isn't a doctor or a fan grasping at straws, it's reasonable to assume (I dare anyone to mention the saying about assuming) that he didn't know that and had no reason to research the topic. If he wanted us to think she was dead when she wasn't, he would have done something more ambiguous than having her stabbed though the heart like having her just cough up blood collapse from her injuries.