07-16-2013, 06:01 AM
(07-15-2013, 05:51 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: I remember hearing story's of people seeming to be somewhat coherent after being beheaded by a guillotine. They'd hold the person's head up and let them look at their body, etc.
That sounds like an urban myth to me, or a legend made up to scare posh French people who were set to face Madame guillotine.
Surely as soon as your spinal cord is severed that's it, you're gone.
We need to punish the French, ignore the Germans and forgive the Russians - Condoleezza Rice.