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Ray Turner wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:34:51 -0700, pammyT wrote:
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> > It won't be suffering. I get so pissed off when people say that the
> > creature sees and feels and lives for up to xxx amount of minutes when
> > it gets beheaded. How do they know? Why would it still be alive with
> > decapitation but dead when you break the neck. People survive accidents
> > when they get their neck broken so if you really want to think about it,
> > why would your birds not also survive with a broken neck?
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> Back during the French revolution, the citizens were having a love affair
> with the guillotine. One condemed aristocrat consented to participate in
> an experiment. The plan was - after his beheading - the aristocrat would
> respond to verbal demand to blink his eyes if he were able.
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> The account I read said that the aristocrat did not respond to demands to
> blink his eyes for two or three seconds after the blade severed his
> head. Then the decapitated head started blinking - and continued to blink
> for 8 to 10 seconds.
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> I don't think it's far out to believe that the brain could survive intact
> for 10 seconds after complete loss of blood presure. That's pretty much a
> strong argument for putting an animal unconscience prior to the death
> blow.
I think I would tend to believe more in modern data and evidence done
with electrical impulse measurement that a tale which may or not be
true told by someone who died over 200 years ago. Blinking would have
been simply a reflex action just like the limbs thrash. The myth you
mentioned has so many inconsistancies in it that is simply not to be
considered as credible.
I suffer from low blood pressure, when the blood pressure drops I pass
out. When people bleed to death, once the blood pressure drops very
low, they become unconcious. If youlike to stun, fine, but please don't
insinuate that someone who beheads may be inflicting pain or cruelty
based on a 200 year old unsubstantiated fable.
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