After decapitation....how many seconds will your brain function?!
Question:
After decapitation....how many seconds will your brain function?
When people were decapitated back in the day, was there enough time to see their own body and realize what had occurred?
Or is decapitation instant death?
Answers:
it depends on how well the brain was oxygenated prior to decapitation. It will function for from 2 minutes to 7 minutes based on oxygen levels, the body or torso dies immediately as it no longer has brain function to tell it what to do, but the brain can go on for some time. It is a horrible way to die, there are accounts from the French revolution of people seeing the heads in the baskets rolling their eyes and trying to talk.