Alien chest popping..

Xenopedia

When fully developed, the Chestburster releases enzymes that soften the bone and surrounding tissues of the host's chest cavity to facilitate its egress, before finally forcing its way through the sternum. While the host may experience some discomfort in the minutes and hours leading up to the event, including mild chest pain and nausea, the actual emergence itself is rapid, with the Chestburster exiting within seconds of the onset of severe pain upon the host. The process begins with cramp-like pains in the victim's chest but rapidly progresses to debilitating agony and uncontrollable convulsions. When the Chestburster finally emerges it induces severe trauma, organ rupture and massive blood loss; death is almost instantaneous, but excruciatingly painful.

Aliens: Advent/Terminus made someone survive it, in highly controlled environment. Hard to say how canon is that tho.

Some more about it on reddit.

AT This point, You would have to ask David about it.
And well...the engineers certainly had a sacrificial fetish

Well the problem is that annoying Newton's Third Law: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The chestburster has to push pretty hard on the inside of your chest to break your ribs and split you open from the inside, and an equal amount of force is being distributed over the area it's bracing against. This would be your internal organs, which we can generally assume will squash like grapes - and that's discounting any weakening effect from the chestburster enzymes.

When your insides are soup you don't have very high chances of survival.