and yeah this is a serious question
2007-10-27 15:20:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
The brain can survive only for a few seconds without oxygen. It's not like holding your breath because your heart is still pumping blood to your brain. No blood flow and you die in 10-15 seconds at most.
On the really bad guys, they used to reach in and grab the head out of the basket after they were chopped off and show them their body. The head would be "screaming" and trying to form words for several seconds before blood loss took effect and the brain died.
Of course, some would be in such shock that they would just faint before the head was removed.
2007-10-27 15:26:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Head Gets Cut Off
2016-10-22 08:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that EEG's have been used to monitor people as they die - and that they continue to be able to hear for as long as 12 minutes after their cardiopulmonary functions cease.
It is therefore a kindness to continue to speak soothingly to people as and after they expire.
One would expect that the acuity of mental processes begin to diminish immediately upon cessation of oxygen supply to the brain and cease entirely varying as a function of the most recent oxygen supply and the specific brain's rate of consumption.
Now -- Samurai have believed that if the body was committed to an action, it can continue that one last action after the head is severed. I would suspect that this is largely inertia... that is - if the samurai was already charging, their body might make a few automatic steps but I doubt a headless body could perform any but the most basic motions.
2007-10-27 15:28:21 · answer #3 · answered by Ron M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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about 30 seconds, sorry I have not source, but people noticed the eye's could still focus after beheading suggesting they were still conscious after beheading. further investigation showed that the person was conscious for about 30 seconds after beading before oxygen supply to the brain ran out and the person died or the person died of sheer trauma. I don't know what it's like but I imagine that would be a pretty damn traumatizing last 30 seconds of life, before you go unconscious and die :s.
2016-04-09 04:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably about 7 seconds
i know a cocoroach can like 5 days without its head
2007-10-28 18:14:49 · answer #5 · answered by Annie K 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
your nerves are instantly cut, if you thought about moving your hand up from your waist at the time, then strait after it was cut off, your arm, (by impulse of your brain) will move your arm up, and flop back down due to gravity, and no responses from your brain telling it what to do next, (due to head bieng not attached)
:) sam
2007-10-27 15:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would think that at the moment your head gets cut off, you are dead, your body may have involuntary nerve responses, but your dead.
And why in the world is this a serious question?
2007-10-27 15:26:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
i cant remember the exact amount of time but im pretty sure its only a few seconds before your brain shuts down
2007-10-27 15:23:28 · answer #8 · answered by wyattwillis19 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Up to 83 years. Almost as long as semen survives in the testicles.
2016-10-05 17:20:28 · answer #9 · answered by Adam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
near seconds,
2007-10-27 15:22:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋