Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy) er gott lag dude : D

Suicides and old-fashioned “short drop” executions cause death by strangulation; the rope puts pressure on the windpipe and the arteries to the brain. This can cause unconsciousness in 10 seconds, but it takes longer if the noose is incorrectly sited. Witnesses of public hangings often reported victims “dancing” in pain at the end of the rope, struggling violently as they asphyxiated. Death only ensues after many minutes, as shown by the numerous people being resuscitated after being cut down - even after 15 minutes.

When public executions were outlawed in Britain in 1868, hangmen looked for a less performance-oriented approach. They eventually adopted the “long-drop” method, using a lengthier rope so the victim reached a speed that broke their necks. It had to be tailored to the victim's weight, however, as too great a force could rip the head clean off, a professionally embarrassing outcome for the hangman.

Despite the public boasting of several prominent executioners in late 19th-century Britain, a 1992 analysis of the remains of 34 prisoners found that in only about half of cases was the cause of death wholly or partly due to spinal trauma. Just one-fifth showed the classic “hangman's fracture” between the second and third cervical vertebrae. The others died in part from asphyxiation.

Michael Spence, an anthropologist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, has found similar results in US victims. He concluded, however, that even if asphyxiation played a role, the trauma of the drop would have rapidly rendered all of them unconscious. “What the hangmen were looking for was quick cessation of activity,” he says. “And they knew enough about their craft to ensure that happened. The thing they feared most was decapitation.”

hah, mega íslenska :þ
en já, það væri frekar óskemtilegt að vera pyntaður til dauða..

Death by drowning has a certain dark romance to it: countless literary heroines have met their end slipping beneath the waves with billowy layers of petticoats floating around their heads. In reality, suffocating to death in water is neither pretty nor painless, though it can be surprisingly swift.

Just how fast people drown depends on several factors, including swimming ability and water temperature. In the UK, where the water is generally cold, 55 per cent of open-water drownings occur within 3 metres of safety. Two-thirds of victims are good swimmers, suggesting that people can get into difficulties within seconds, says Mike Tipton, a physiologist and expert in marine survival at the University of Portsmouth in the UK.

Typically, when a victim realises that they cannot keep their head above water they tend to panic, leading to the classic “surface struggle”. They gasp for air at the surface and hold their breath as they bob beneath, says Tipton. Struggling to breathe, they can't call for help. Their bodies are upright, arms weakly grasping, as if trying to climb a non-existent ladder from the sea. Studies with New York lifeguards in the 1950s and 1960s found that this stage lasts just 20 to 60 seconds.

When victims eventually submerge, they hold their breath for as long as possible, typically 30 to 90 seconds. After that, they inhale some water, splutter, cough and inhale more. Water in the lungs blocks gas exchange in delicate tissues, while inhaling water also triggers the airway to seal shut - a reflex called a laryngospasm. “There is a feeling of tearing and a burning sensation in the chest as water goes down into the airway. Then that sort of slips into a feeling of calmness and tranquility,” says Tipton, describing reports from survivors.

That calmness represents the beginnings of the loss of consciousness from oxygen deprivation, which eventually results in the heart stopping and brain death.

hah, geðveikt góð tilfining

Og hvernig í ósköpunum ætti maður að geta vitað það?

Ef þú deyrt þá ertu ekki til frásagnar.

Mér hefur legið við drukknun og það þurfti að blása mig til lífs aftur og það er ömurlegri reynsla en orð fá lýst.

Og hvernig í ósköpunum ætti maður að vita það?

Ef maður drukknar þá er maður ekki til frásagnar.

Mér hefur legið við drukknun þar sem það þurfti að blása mig til lífs aftur og það var ömurlegri reynsla en orð fá lýst.

Bætt við 19. febrúar 2008 - 23:07
Æi hélt að hitt kommentið hefði ekki skilað sér, well hehe

Úff, sammála.

ojbara… samt, ef hún væri nóog köld þá myndi maður kanski ekki frostna :o

Minnir mig á frystikistulagið (H)

já ouch. að brenna væri ekkert voðalega spennandi

hahah

næs.. þá ætla ég að drukkna

Þá kafnaru. Maður kafnar úr reky áður en eldurinn yfirbugar mann.

Það væri geðveikt, hefðir tíma til þess að hugsa allan daginn.

Reyndar er þetta með Gullfoss mjög góð hugmynd! takkk fyrir…! (haha, veit að maður á ekki að grínast með þetta, en samt)

eða þá líma hendurnar á sér við hausinn og hengja sig með stál vír!
gera það á miðjum laugarveginum eða í kringlunni.
einsog maður hafi rifið af sér hausinn :D

úff..

köfnun er ekki spennandi

haha, hvað er að gömlu fólki?
það er lítið, hrukkótt og sætt..
gerist ekki kynþokkafyllra!

mig langar ekki einusinni að vita hvernig það er að brenna lifandi :)

ekki BARA innvortisblæðngar!

hringvöðvinn rifnar, endlaus niðurgangur af kúk og blóði.
þarft að vera með bleyju það sem eftir er, alltaf full af kúk og öðru slabbi og örugglega aragrúi af ýmsum skemmtilegum kynsjúkdómum.

hvað er þetta.. það gerist ekki heitara en Mr. Hands!

greinilega mjööög gaman o.O

Ég trúi því þegar ég upplifi það sjálfu

jú maður. hrukkur og allt það

Hvað er að vera stjaksettur?

jahá

honníbönní!

Bætt við 17. febrúar 2008 - 21:19
;***;D;D;**

það væri svalt sjálfsmorð

Deyrðu núna áður en langt um líður!!

það er ógeðslegt… þoli ekki þegar það er gripið um hálsinn á mé