If the head is completely cut off then you can not live, your heart needs your brain to send messages to it for it to work. ... how long can you live after decapitation...
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The precise post-execution lifespan will depend on how much oxygen, and other chemicals, were in the brain at the point of decapitation; ... the second question is 'how long does the victim remain aware?' While the brain remains chemically alive, consciousness can cease immediately, caused by the loss of blood pressure or if...
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europeanhistory.about.com/od/thefrenchrevolution/a/dyk1...
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Still alive after decapitation? Not a nice idea, and yet that's what's been said of Charlotte Corday. Find out if the brain stays alive after decapitation. ... If your head stays on your shoulders, though, it can still be damaged beyond repair. Next, let's take a look about how long brain damage can last...
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health.howstuffworks.com/10-brain-myths6.htm
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In one early series of experiments, an anatomist claimed that decapitated heads reacted to stimuli, with one victim turning his eyes toward a speaker 15 minutes after having been beheaded. (Today we know brain death would have occurred long before.) In 1836 the murderer Lacenaire agreed to wink after execution.
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www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1172/does-the-head-re...
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1172/does-the-head-remain-briefly-conscious-after-decapitation
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To the Editor:—In the July 10 Issue of Life magazine are a series of pictures of the decapitation of Wiedman. Can you give me an account of just what processes take place after such an execution? How long do the head and body live after separation?
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www.scribd.com/doc/18249769/JAMA-Sept-9-1939-Queries-and-Minor-Notes-Decapitation-and-Consciousness
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Damn Interesting just reposted a short piece on that notion of "Lucid Decapitation." From Damn Interesting: In the heyday of the guillotine during the French Revolution, it is said that many of the condemned were asked to blink for as long as possible after decapitation. ... The brain is deprived of oxygen, and no doubt it...
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www.boingboing.net/2008/11/14/conscious-after-deca.html
www.boingboing.net/2008/11/14/conscious-after-deca.html
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The counter-arguments are: first, physiological dysfunction is not the equivalent of anatomical decapitation. The only phenomenon short of actual decapitation that might similarly qualify is total liquefaction (lysis) of the brain, something that probably does not occur until well after cardiac arrest.
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www.jlaw.com/Articles/brain.html
www.jlaw.com/Articles/brain.html
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Jane Austen ate our brain long ago and we have been an Austen zombie ever since, attentively working away for 200 years ... We were mildly amused when the frenzy erupted in the media after the news of the publication of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was announced. ... If you like Saturday Night Live parodies on cultural icons,
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austenprose.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/pride-and-prejudic...
austenprose.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-jane-austen-ate-my-brain-long-ago-the-sunday-salon-review/
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