re: Boy killed on KC waterslide was decapitated

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but you could very well be conscious for several long seconds after decapitation.

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prove it for us.

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What's frightening is that you believe that horseshite.

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I hate agreeing with mizzoukills

But I do recall reading out a scientist doing experiments on people who got beheaded by guillotine by asking them to move their eyes after beheading...

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This made for quick and easy retrieval of the head by the executioner -- who merely pulled a lever -- after it was cut off. Picking up the head to show to the crowd was customary, and occasionally the executioner showed disrespect to the head as well. This was the case with Charlotte Corday, a woman executed by guillotine in France in 1793 after she assassinated the revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat.

After her head was severed, the executioner smacked its cheeks while he held it aloft. To the astonishment of the crowd, Corday's cheeks flushed and her facial expression changed into the "unequivocal marks of indignation" [source: Ernle, et al].

Corday was the first, though not the last, severed head reported to show the signs of consciousness following decapitation.

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This is what is most disturbing about the concept of consciousness remaining after decapitation; we may feel pain and experience fear in those few moments before death. This has been reported in a number of cases where consciousness appeared to remain following decapitation. Most recently, in 1989, an Army veteran reported that following a car accident that he was in with a friend, the decapitated head of his friend changed facial expressions: "First of shock or confusion then to terror or grief," [source:Bellows].

Both King Charles I and Queen Anne Boleyn are reported to both have showed signs of trying to speak following their beheadings (by executioners' swords, rather than by guillotine) [source: Maslin]. When he spoke out against the use of the guillotine in 1795, German researcher S.T. Sommering cited reports of decapitated heads that have ground their teeth and that the face of one decapitated person "grimaced horribly" when a physician inspecting the head poked the spinal canal with his finger [source: Sommering].

Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and "undeniably" focus them on the doctor's twice by calling the executed man's name [source: Bellows].

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This is what is most disturbing about the concept of consciousness remaining after decapitation; we may feel pain and experience fear in those few moments before death. This has been reported in a number of cases where consciousness appeared to remain following decapitation. Most recently, in 1989, an Army veteran reported that following a car accident that he was in with a friend, the decapitated head of his friend changed facial expressions: "First of shock or confusion then to terror or grief," [source:Bellows]. Both King Charles I and Queen Anne Boleyn are reported to both have showed signs of trying to speak following their beheadings (by executioners' swords, rather than by guillotine) [source: Maslin]. When he spoke out against the use of the guillotine in 1795, German researcher S.T. Sommering cited reports of decapitated heads that have ground their teeth and that the face of one decapitated person "grimaced horribly" when a physician inspecting the head poked the spinal canal with his finger [source: Sommering]. Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and "undeniably" focus them on the doctor's twice by calling the executed man's name [source: Bellows].

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but, but, but...first hand accounts are just myth!


LOL

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but, but, but...first hand accounts are just myth!

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You said 10-15 minutes, homeboy.

Link us some studies verifying that nonsense.

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mizzoukills

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Don't let it go to your head. You're like 25% right. 30 seconds =\= 15 minutes.

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For 10 - 15 minutes after death your brain is still very active....

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By definition, death is the termination of all vital functions that sustain life.

Just stop talking.

"Horrific neck injury" or "catastrophic" is usually code for decapitation.

I don't know what would make it worse? For them to just come out and say it and endure the oohs and ahhs and screams. Or take this course and have several "sources" leak the information over a week or two.

Literally 100 people probably saw this happen. They can't unsee it. EVERY 18-20 year old park worker knows and probably 50-75 fire/EMS/LEO saw it for themselves.

One victim and two tarps?

Just horrible. Hell two women who aren't related were on that ride with him. They saw it?

Has it been said whether the boy came lose or the entire vehicle came loose and struck the cage? If the entire vehicle did not come loose, I can't imagine the horrible objects that caused those two women facial injuries.

"Safe dangerous"???!!! WTF???

I hope this accident doesn't show up on LiveLeak