Head chopping

[sobrique]

Someone at work has just raised an interesting question.

If you're head's chopped off, you lose blood supply to the brain. And so the lights will go out _pretty quick_.

But apparantly 'pretty quick' means about 8 seconds.

So what'd be your last thoughts at your head getting separated from your body by really sharp cutting things.

Would you be feeling detached?
Or would you be thinking 'oh fuck, you bastards, you chopped my head off, and I'd swear at you, but my lungs and voice box are over there on the floor'.

I think in the interests of science, we need a volunteer for head-chopping, so we can hold a seance and ask them what it was like.

Comments

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Pain, dizziness, a certain amount of sickness... bear in mind that several of those eight seconds would usually be spend spinning and bouncing across the floor...

One bad bounce and your last thought could be "fuck, and my nose has just broken too..."

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Pain and dizzy I can see, but sick? Surely you can't vom if you have no stomach any more...

[the-wood-gnome.livejournal.com]

you don't have to have a stomach to feel 'sick' if that sickness is nauseau

volunteer for head-chopping

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I volunteer Jeffrey Archer.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Mostly "what is that horrible noise" - the lungs will often keep breathing for a lot of that 8 seconds and if the voice box is left intact, it's not pretty. And "I never knew I had so much blood".

[nuala.livejournal.com]

*snort* feeling detached? bad bad bad!

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Bah. I wasn't responsible for that awful Paladin joke.