Unless the thing doing the stabbing hits the spine dead in the center , it probably get deflect to the side of the spine . It would still go through the body , but it wouldn ' t go through their spine itself . Bone is hard to stab through . The same goes for ribs in the ribcage . The bladespikestabber gets shoved to the side by the bones , and passes through the soft tissue instead . People who have impaled themselves on rebar or other sufficiently dull stabby things sometimes avoid even having organ damage because the organs get pushed out of the way . Maybe that sometimes happens to the spine also . Or lazy writingdirecting . <| sep |> Yeah , I ' m sure Dez didn ' t say anything to Norman at all during the course of the game .