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Cutting off the head of a fish or eel is not as quick a death as you might hope. Destroying the brain is.
by gotocake 8y ago
Cutting off the head of a fish or eel is not as quick a death as you might hope. Destroying the brain is.
- mfoy_ 8y agoYou might find this mobidly interesting... http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/06/lavoisier-blinks/ http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/06/lavoisier-blinks/
- gotocake 8y agoOh wow. That really is dark and fascinating, thanks!
- reitoei 8y agoI know what this is, and I'm not clicking it.
- mfoy_ 8y agoThere's no graphic images. It's not a "shock" or "gotcha" link. The TL;DR is that the head can stay "alive" for some time after decapitation. The nominal example (see the URL) being Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier who was guillotined during the French Revolution and committed to blinking for as long as he possibly could after being decapitated. There are also more modern examples "thanks" to ISIS.
- reitoei 8y agoOh I didn't think you were trying to trick me or anything. I read about Lavoiser and the guillotine when I was a child and it stuck with me. The Russian experiment with the reanimated dogs heads... I'll let you google that one yourself.
- apo 8y agoDebunked here: As for the story of the postmortem experiment with Lagrange, no mention is made of it in any of the reputable biographies of Lavoisier. ... https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed081p629 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed081p629