When people were decapitated back in the day, was there enough time to see their own body and realize what had occurred?
Or is decapitation instant death?
2007-06-14 07:16:24 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
it depends on how well the brain was oxygenated prior to decapitation. It will function for from 2 minutes to 7 minutes based on oxygen levels, the body or torso dies immediately as it no longer has brain function to tell it what to do, but the brain can go on for some time. It is a horrible way to die, there are accounts from the French revolution of people seeing the heads in the baskets rolling their eyes and trying to talk.
2007-06-14 07:21:53 · answer #1 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a decapitated head can remain alive up unti labout 12 seconds, until it cannot take in oxygen, therefore unconsciouness and death finally occurs.
It is said that a decapitated head can still see for a few seconds. Back in the tudor times, when someone was decapitated, the executor would hold up the head. This was not so that the crowd could see the head, but it was so that the head could see the crowd and its mutilated body (if that makes any sense at all) lol!
2007-06-15 00:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read that you die and brain function stops almost immediately, within micro-seconds, and that the rumor that you are alive and aware of what happened is false. I think this question was on "Ask Yahoo".
2007-06-14 07:23:17 · answer #3 · answered by Eric 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard up to 15 seconds. I don't think it would take that long, but you would be aware for at least a second I think. Probably very confused though.
2007-06-14 07:20:30 · answer #4 · answered by killfoot2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that would be scary wouldnt it ......seein your body headless
2007-06-14 07:20:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋