I can attest to that. I've made some three attempts on my life to date. The human body is actually quite resilient to mortal injury - it's a lot harder to make a person dead than you might imagine.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'