What happens when one hangs (noose around neck)? Describe the step by step process of what occurs.?

Question

This is for a medical paper...like how the blood is block from the arteries to the ultimate death.

Answer 1

With a correctly fitting noose as the body drops and is arrested from the fall the neck is wrenched to the side, breaking instantly.

It is all to do with body velocity. If not dropped sufficiently far the neck will not break.
If dropped too far decapitation occurs.

I believe that happened recently in Iraq.

Answer 2

Gugilimpy is correct...If the knot is tied properly, and everything works as it should. That is why a hangman’s noose looks the way it does. The knot has a coil of rope above the noose. The coil is designed to push the head in juxtaposition to the neck, causing the head to reach such an angle at momentum, as to break the neck at the cervical vertebrae. If this happens, and the spinal cord is also broken, death should be quick, with very little pain felt, since nothing below the neck will be able to send pain signals to the brain. Death comes due to asphyxiation, since the brain can no longer send a signal to the lungs to work

Of course if the neck is not broken, death may come by strangulation, which could take a long time, and be painful. Decapitation and heart attack can also be the cause of death in a botched hanging.

Answer 3

The noose tightens around the throat and the neck is broken by the momentum of the body and the twist on the neck. This stretches the neck and breaks it. Paralysis occurs. Death is by asphyxiation.