I have a dumb question that no one can really answer but I have always wondered if John the Baptist and?

Question

others that have been beheaded felt pain and could see, feel or think a moment afterwards or if that was that. How would one know? Mmm

Answer 1

No, that's really not a dumb question.

Recently my brother read a book about the guillotine, the execution device used in the French Revolution to chop people's heads off. I asked him if the book said how long the severed head was "conscious" after being separated from the body. He said the book said the eyes would blink but that death apparently happened in four or five seconds.

With no oxygen to the brain, severing the spinal cord and spine, death occurs very quickly.

Answer 2

The trouble is that those who experience and know these things are not able to convince many of those who have not especially those who do not believe. There are many of us here who at the moment are incapable of breaking through the limitations of our four dimensional space (including me). Only mental and emotional training can transcend that. I, for one, have not been able to attain that yet. I believe, however, that there are realities which are beyond the capability of my 5 senses to detect. I also believe that there are people around who can feel and see what I can not. In the case of John the Baptist, I believe he could see, feel or think afterwards because the guy is numerous times higher in consciousness level than we are. That guy could even remember his previous incarnations. He saw and felt his lot before it happened that was why he was ready to take it.

In our case, how would we know? We will surely know when we experience it. When we do, do not worry about those who have not. If we attempt to convince them they will just behead us or stone us to death. They will have their own good time.

Answer 3

All depends if it was done right. During the French Revolution, beheadings were done quickly with a sharp blade. After, the head could be held up and the eyes could blink three times. Of course, a severed head could not speak and the blood rushed out of its brain causing it to shut down.

Answer 4

John's imprisonment and beheading

Main article: Beheading of John the Baptist

According to the Canonical Gospels, John the Baptist's public ministry was suddenly brought to a close, probably about six months after he had baptized Jesus. According to these Gospel narratives, Herod Antipas jailed him, with the Gospel of Luke and the Gospel of Mark arguing that Herod was punishing John for condemning Herod's marriage to Herodias, the former wife of Herod Philip I, Herod's own brother (Luke 3:19). Some academics have argued that John was imprisoned in the Machaerus fortress on the southern extremity of Peraea, nine miles east of the Dead Sea. {Josephus Jewish Antiquities XVIII:5:1–2}

Josephus states that Herod deliberately killed John to quell a possible uprising in around 36. According to some, Herod Antipas did not marry his brother's wife until his brother Herod Philip I died in 34, so as to make Josephus' dating plausible for the biblical account of John's death. His disciples, after consigning his headless body to the grave, told Jesus all that had occurred (Matthew 14:3-12). But John's death came just before the third and last Passover of Jesus' ministry, placed no later than 33.[citation needed]

According to (Matthew 14:6-8) Salome, the daughter of Herodias danced for King Herod and delighted him so much that he vowed to give her anything she wanted: after consulting with her mother she requested the head of John the Baptist.

Neither Josephus nor the Gospels state where John was buried, though the Gospels state that John's disciples took his body and placed it in a tomb. In the time of Julian the Apostate, however, his tomb was shown at Samaria, where the inhabitants opened it and burned part of his bones. The rest of the alleged remains were saved by some Christians, who carried them to an abbot of Jerusalem named Philip.[1]

Answer 5

I'm fairly certain that you feel pain for a moment, if your head is severed fast like in the guillotine.

I had a pretty serious near death experience once, and lost all sense of pain pretty fast, tho. Loss of blood to the brain makes the pain end quick.

However, my guess is that John wasn't given the guillotine. Maybe a sword, which was typical for Romans in that time. Or, perhaps the dull knife like the Radical Muslims do today.

My guess is you feel that.

TEK

Answer 6

I hate to say that I have an answer to this one, but I do. There was an experiment done many years ago??? by two guys who wondered the same thing back when they used the guillotine. Then one of the guys gets sentenced to die by the guillotine. They decide that the one who got "axed" will blink his eyes repeatedly at his friend until he lost consciousness. The other guy would count the blinks. Saw it on either History Channel or National Geographic-can't remember which.

Answer 7

Yes it is an unusual question...Why did you ask it?
creepy...
My own thoughts...No pain if it was done swiftly and clean cut.
The head when it is cut off the body will experience just a few seconds of thought from the brain before the blood leaves it.
Weird huh? No one really knows.
Peace....

Answer 8

Interesting question. I don't know for sure. I would think they wouldn't feel anything. In an instant all nerves are severed. People are not like worms. When part of their body gets cut off they are still alive for a while.

Answer 9

That's one of those questions you ask John the Baptist in Heaven.

Answer 10

I don't wanna find out.

There were stories back in the guillotine days of witnesses seeing the decapitated head with its eyes open and blinking for a few seconds after the blade fell.