I'm watching Inside edition and one of the headlines was about an accident after a weddin and it's about a little girl who was killed in the acident... and said she died and was decapitated
2006-10-20 11:17:02 · 35 answers · asked by Gothic Girl 4 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head), or beheading, is the removal of a living organism's head. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, or knife, or by means of a guillotine. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, automobile or industrial accident or other violent injury. Suicide by decapitation is rare, but not unknown. In 2003 a British man killed himself by means of a home-made guillotine, constructed over a period of several weeks. Decapitation is always fatal, as brain death usually occurs within seconds to minutes without the support of the organism's body. There is no way to provide life support for a severed head with current medical techniques. The WHO defines decapitation as a malady with a mortality rate close to 100%, which was a pandemic in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century, but nowadays is all but erradicated in developed countries. There are, however, notes of an outbreak in the Middle East
The word decapitation can also refer, on occasion, to the removal of the head of someone who is already dead, i.e., to a corpse. This would have probably made the most sense for the purpose of displaying the head to prove the fact of the individual's death or to instill fear in the populace by illustrating the likely fate of an enemy of the authorities.
In an analagous fashion, decapitation can also refer to the removal of the head (the leaders) of an organization. If, for example, the leader of a country were killed, that might be referred to as decapitation.
2006-10-20 11:18:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Anything that can seperate the head from the shoulders is capable of decapitation. A high school aquaintance of mine was in a VW bug that went over a cliff shortly before graduation. The force of the landing decapitated him. They found his head in the back seat.
2006-10-20 11:28:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head cut off from the body.
2006-10-20 11:18:41 · answer #3 · answered by eagleboy225 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Decapitated- the head was cut off or removed in other way.
2006-10-20 11:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by jimbell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is when the head is severed from the body completly, the head has to be completly cut off to be considered decapitated. Sorry to be so blunt.
2006-10-20 11:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara C 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head cut off
2006-10-20 11:18:14 · answer #6 · answered by mama3x 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if a person is decapitated their head has come off
2016-05-22 05:59:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A head being cut off.
2006-10-20 11:37:33 · answer #8 · answered by me. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To take off a human head. She was killed because her head was cut off during the accident.
Poor wee thing!
2006-10-20 11:23:16 · answer #9 · answered by rentongal1958 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Head cut off.
2006-10-20 11:18:50 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋