Board Thread:Wiki/@comment-28807545-20160621071026/@comment-28807545-20160621161333

If only this was a binary option between "dead" and "alive", that may actually be an argument. However we don't know, hence un-known.

If you look at the chapter myopically, the theme is Armin dying, but if you look at the whole story as one piece, there is actually extremely strong reason to believe he will survive somehow.

None of your "facts" equate to dying in that short of a period of time, buddy. Nothing happened to him that would cause instant death (as in the heart completely stopping so that serum wouldn't be able to make it across the body), even in the "real world".