A long time ago something came up in a conversation with a friend about how long you can see or how long you "live" essentially after you die. My friend said 10 seconds and told me a story or something he heard. It goes like this: Somebody's wondering the same question and says to somebody else, when the guilotine goes down and my head comes off, I will blink for every second I can see/live/whatever, So the guilotine comes down, and his head comes off, and it blinks ten times, one for each second.

So I didn't believe him and said it was probably just a muscle spasm or something like a snake's jaws do when it's killed while snapping.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Sorry about how vague this is, the conversation came up 8 years ago, and the naivety of it is because we where in the second grade.

We`ve had this thread here before too.

 

take a peek: http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=5888

oh thanks, I wasn't sure what the search criteria would be

So I didn't believe him and said it was probably just a muscle spasm or something like a snake's jaws do when it's killed while snapping.

 

Actually, those aren't muscle-spasms; the snake is still alive, and can live for over 10 minutes. Because they have such low metabolisms, it takes a lot longer for the lack of blood to the brain to kill them. It's an exceptionally cruel death.

 

Mokele

Hm, next time I kill a snake I'll try and make it a bit quicker.

Why don't you try just not killing it? They're not hurting anyone, even the venomous species. Over 70% of venomous snakebites are caused by people attempting to catch or kill the animal. Just leave it alone and let it do what it evolved to do.

 

Mokele

It was a joke, about how horribly long of a death that is.

well, when your head is cutted off u r dead immediately, but guss what

 

if this head properly install in lab (brain need glucose , o2 , and so on there whould be a life dead brain or head , but for how long , one day , i don't think so ...

 

cheers

1. Improper sentance structure.

2. Postwore-esque IM.

3. Incorrect facts.

4. Such bad grammer I had no idea what you were talking about.