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Can you blink your eyes or talk AFTER you have been beheaded?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 28752316:MV8yMDY2NTA4XzM0NzcyOTA4XzkwNEQwRTFF] Yes. The people in beheading videos (getting their heads sawed off with a hunting knife) are probably partly unconscious from fear and horror before they are cut. Nature is merciful like that. Its almost certain no head severed in that manner has ever spoken or been conscious. But when Muslims ruled Spain, beheading was the most humane execution possible. Henry VIII offered to bring the best Spanish swordsman to behead his beloved Anne Bolyn. I think she chose an axe. In those executions the person was likely to be somewhat reconciled to their fate. They would be religiously prepared and in a state of psychological dissociation or mild trance. The severing blow would be swift and painless. Its very possible the brain would continue to function until it bled out. Four minutes perhaps. I am not aware of any famous last word of the severed heads. I'm sure history records the treatment of the head, whether it flew off or rolled or was shown to the crowd (or shown its body!) or treated respectfully. I can't think of an instance of a severed head speaking. I've read accounts of witnesses declaring they saw what seemed to them signs of consciousness--eye contact and so on. They could have been hysterical witnesses. There are undoubtedly more gruesome accounts from the French guillotine. Again, you have to account for hysteria among the viewers as well as the natural human love of augmenting dramatic stories with romantic or gruesome details. Beheadings by accident or in battle are probably such a surprise and preceded by such chaos that the beheaded person doesn't register what has happened. There are reports of hanged men running after being cut down then collapsing. Also, the bodies reflexes are such that a suicide or gunfighter really can get off a shot with his brain destroyed. [/quote]
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Is it possible for a person to still be conscious after he/she has been beheaded? Could they be aware of what has happened to them?
It would seem possible due to brain activity...
Could they try to talk? Or look around???
I'm curious...
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