Headless

[Micky T]

Someone told me when people were decapitated they remained concsious for several minutes. Is this true, or just an urban myth?

[jnkdna]

i think it's true. im not sure about humans but once i saw a decapitated chicken running around!!!! but then it died!!

[Micky T]

I thought headless chickens were just because the nervous system went crazy, and spasmed. I heard that when people were decapitated, their head, not their body stayed "alive" ( if you can call that life). I heard that people would continue looking around and blinking even without their bodies, but this could just be spasms too, I guess

[Squawkbox]

i think it all depends where you sever the neck, if there is still connection to the brain stem or cerebellum then the person cant still be alive for a bit. that is that their body can move but they arent really alive in the true sense

[playboy bunny]

Someone told me when people were decapitated they remained concsious for several minutes. Is this true, or just an urban myth?

maybe you should try it and find out. if you last for several minutes then you can send us a lab report

[jnkdna]

Someone told me when people were decapitated they remained concsious for several minutes. Is this true, or just an urban myth?

maybe you should try it and find out. if you last for several minutes then you can send us a lab report

now thats just sick!

wat if he dosent survive how will we know the answer?

[playboy bunny]

Someone told me when people were decapitated they remained concsious for several minutes. Is this true, or just an urban myth?

maybe you should try it and find out. if you last for several minutes then you can send us a lab report

now thats just sick!

wat if he dosent survive how will we know the answer?

very good point.
but that that is such a random question. when you get your head cut of thats it, ya dead. although its kinda like when you put an aniaml to sleep. when you euthanise the aniaml, they still get muscle spasms etc.
but somehow i dont think thats related!

[jnkdna]

yea i dont get the relationship btw muscle spasms and being decapitated! being a sleep is not like you're dead. but then again they could have some relation!

[catfishjim]

Someone told me when people were decapitated they remained concsious for several minutes. Is this true, or just an urban myth?

Why urban?

[MrMistery]

Urban mith doesn't mean it's from the city, it means "modern mith"

[Dr.Stein]

i think it's true. im not sure about humans but once i saw a decapitated chicken running around!!!! but then it died!!

Haha yes! When I saw someone cutting a hen for food, the hen was running away after being decapitated, here and there for awhile then dead

[MrMistery]

Yes, i saw a similar situations at my grandparents house when i was like 5. Talk about trauma...