If his skin wasn’t sliding off him in sheets and parts didn’t look like pig cracklin’s he wasn’t dying.
If you have ever seen anyone with 3rd degree burns you will never forget it!
1st degree..redness of skin.
2nd degree.. blisters.
3rd degree..skin destroyed and falling off in sheets.
I remember seeing my mother being pulled out of our house with 3rd degree burns way back in 1956. Again, you will NEVER forget it!
Traumatic shock can be fatal, can it not? While modern medicine should generally allow an excellent prognosis for someone with only second-degree burns, such a person could still die in short order if left untreated.