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Medical Forum / General / General / May 2006Hanging - how long does it take until the victim dies?
Does anyone know how long someone can survive a hanging? You know, there is a "scene" about autoerotic asphyxia and there are some freak accidents every few weeks, does anyone have more information about this? Hangman > X-No-Archive:yes > > Does anyone know how long someone can survive a hanging? A long time. I read book about it once in my youth. It takes a lot of skill to hang a person properly. The hanging ropes actually have to be aged properly too. When done improperly, a person can struggle for quite a long time. When done properly, the person's neck is broken on impact resulting in a relatively quick death. Of course, executioners have also managed to botch a number of executions in the gas chamber and electric chair. A simple Google search should come up with many hits on this topic. >> X-No-Archive:yes >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >A simple Google search should come up with many hits on this topic. Actually, it is now felt that breaking of the neck merely results in a victim who is quadriplegic (and cannot "kick"). Death by hanging results from both asphyxia (choking) and cutting off of blood supply to the brain. It is likely that, if the carotid arteries are totally cut off, the victim loses consciousness rapidly; but it does take many minutes for the heart to stop. Best, Bob Robert A. Fink, M. D., FACS, P. C. Neurological Surgery 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, CA 94704-2636 USA 510-849-2555 "Ex Tristitia Virtus" sounds like a painful way to go. If the condamned could chose, much better to ask to be shot by a firing squad than hung. How do you know ~ ? >sounds like a painful way to go. If the condamned could chose, much >better to ask to be shot by a firing squad than hung. Only if the victim is shot in the head. A chest shot (to the heart) can take a minute or so before the victim will lose consciousness, and if the heart is missed, it can take quite a while to die of bleeding into the chest (which is painful). Best, Bob Robert A. Fink, M. D., FACS, P. C. Neurological Surgery 2500 Milvia Street Suite 222 Berkeley, CA 94704-2636 USA 510-849-2555 "Ex Tristitia Virtus" |
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