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How much pain does a person who is being beheaded has to endure?

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Please do not take offense with my question. I am asking this only to know the scientific and medical point of view. I sincerely wish the pain these innocent hostage victims have to suffer is only very minimal, compared to other painful lingering deaths. I am very sorry if my question hurts any of you.

i guess it depends on the method of beheading

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7 Responses to “How much pain does a person who is being beheaded has to endure?”

  1. Posted by Billy Butthead 9th December, 2008 at 8:12 pm

    Your body reacts to anything in one-tenth of a second.
    If your head was chopped off with a sword you would feel nothing.
    When they saw them off with a knife,you would suffer for a very short time,maybe 3 to 5 seconds.
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  2. Posted by davidt 9th December, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    practically zero once your head topples,with no brain you have no pain
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    david

  3. Posted by PESA LAS BANANAS! m 9th December, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    I've heard that when you suddenly lose a major limb (arm, leg) you hardly feel any pain because your body is flooded with endorphins. You feel this mixture of shock and overwhelming joy. I imagine that most of the pain a person experiences when losing their head is psychological if they know it is about to happen.
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  4. Posted by dizzy 9th December, 2008 at 9:39 pm

    not much u would be dead
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  5. Posted by Argyle S 9th December, 2008 at 9:54 pm

    i guess it depends on the method of beheading
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  6. Posted by TICH4592 9th December, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Can be much pain, for up to half a minute. The head can blnk, groan gasp, open and close eyes several times. It's fully documented in "Does Anything Eat Wasps", including the authentic account of gullotined Lavoisier, and a another, a murderer.
    Grisly, but fun
    I'm told they decapitated Saddam Hussain in the end and he was cursing them while it was done
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    New Scientist, "Does Anything Eat Wasps?" Page 43 in my edition

  7. Posted by dan h 9th December, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    it should be quicker than some ways to die
    pain would be intense
    but the thought of death know your going to die would kill you first
    maybe on pain would be in shock
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