It is literally just above the dangerous level
also Torino is old I doubt standards for fit adults apply for him.
And you are reading too much into what the doctor said, he porbably means that both would dead right now, and not being dead is better than being dead in my book
sigh...
Please don't tell me you just googled "normal heart rate", saw "60-100 bpm" in a bunch of article previews and concluded that below 60 is dangerous.
You wanna know why I know having a heart rate below 60 isn't dangerous? Because my resting heart rate is in the high 50s. And I'm pretty sure I'm not dying. I've seen my own resting heart rate go from around 70 to the 60s to high 50s as my fitness level improved. I know what I'm talking about. People in better shape than I am probably have it even lower.
The estimate for the average going up to 100 is probably just a result of there being too many people that simply don't exercise enough. Like I said, a heart rate in the low 60s is normal for a relatively fit person.
Second, I'm not reading too much into the doctor's words, rather you're just grasping at straws to reach a conclusion where somehow what he said about two patients only applies to one of them in the end.
Look, I understand wanting Torino to die. I get it. Maybe he should've died. Especially after the attack he took.
But he didn't. He lives, and we have to live with that. Can't let the ghost of Torino's survival haunt us.