Do People Really Remain Conscious When Guillotined?

Dive into the dark history of execution methods and the mystery of consciousness after decapitation. Explore shocking experiments and modern debates in this chilling examination of death's most enigmatic moments.
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[@Daugueffxi]

A shoddily built private sub depressurizing in deep sea seems a pretty fast way to go.

[@chriss9177]

Fast and expensive!!

[@cleverusername9369]

One moment you're a human, an instant later you're a pink mist. Not bad. Just costly.

[@synthWizkid]

Seems. I see what you did there

[@matthewk4930]

To be fair, the submersible was BUILT to spec. It was a “shoddy” design and theory.

[@bmstylee]

Too soon?

[@gw2955]

People screaming in the face of beheaded people for science has to be the most disturbing image I've had in my head today.

[@Bearwithme560]

I agree.

[@jayneneewing2369]

Sounds like something which would show up in a Mel Brooks film. 😬

[@billdivine9501]

Or a Monty Python skit! 😂

[@Badgerlust]

I least you have your head 😂

[@Mo1stKevlar]

“BAAAAHHHHHHHHHH” Scientist: “did it move?” “No”

[@MegaBspark]

i'd have to say "i'd rather go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did, not screaming in terror like his passengers" bob monkhouse

[@rhov-anion]

I know it's a joke, but really, it depends on what killed them in their sleep. Twice, I had a heart attack in my sleep, people would have said, "At least she died peacefully in her sleep." It wasn't peaceful. Both times, I had the most terrifying and agonizing dream of my life. The first time was way worse because apparently my heart fully stopped. I remember the weird sensation of, "Oh wow, I can't hear the blood rushing in my ears anymore. Never realized how noisy that is." Then a realization of "I died?" Not even sure how long that lasted before gasping for air with my heart in a panicked, uneven beat. Second time, I flailed about, managed to wake up, trying to scream but unable to breathe, slamming my fist into my chest so hard I cracked a rib. Self CPR sucks.

[@nathanielashley9998]

that just made me spit my beer all over mysekf😂😂

[@jenA9026]

An oldie but a goodie!​@@nathanielashley9998

[@bfchristianbf]

​@@rhov-anion hey,hope im not being rude by asking but,how old are you?would these heart attacks possibly be related pre existing conditions or maybe habits that led to a weaker heart? Wish you well,stay safe.

[@georgevprochazka5316]

2 things you don't get to choose in life : Death and taxes...

[@kenharris5390]

A person in France who was due to be Guillotine said to a friend that when his head was severed, he would try and blink continuously, even after the head was severed; his friend noted that the poor fellow continued to blink rapidly for almost thirty seconds after the execution. "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." Aesop.

[@DepakoteMeister]

Ah yes, a third hand story, you can't get more accurate can that!

[@hypsyzygy506]

Aesop was so right.

[@timneeb7152]

I've also heard that story before

[@a6am3mn0n]

@@DepakoteMeister and only one account of the third hand story.

[@DepakoteMeister]

@@a6am3mn0n Exactly. All the believers in people being conscious after decapitation are probably the same people that believe in 'souls leaving the body', 'spirits', 'mediums', 'ghosts' and other nonsense.

[@BennyMcGhee]

The worst part about being beheaded is that from your perspective, you are being de-bodied. Your body is being cut off. I wouldn’t even want to lose a finger, let alone my entire body! The horror!

[@sammuslu2992]

I can't sleep now after reading that! 😅

[@-Keith-]

You'd probably be wildly dizzy for the 0.5 seconds that you're still conscious considering your head would be tumbling which would make your inner ear do all kinds of things it's not used to.

[@mikemcginn4232]

​@@-Keith-whoa I never thought about how you'd experience your head FALLING like that 🤯

[@biedak]

I once lost my fingernail after buddy in my school slamed the door and hit my hand. I imagine beheading is way worse.

[@EYE_GOTCHA]

@@biedak I have lost 2 fingernails and a toenail in my lifetime. Thankfully, they grew back. 😬

[@Gamble661]

My brain activity ceased years ago and I'm still walking around.

[@jamesburns9975]

Can relate

[@danielboiani288]

You love bourbon too, huh?

[@markcollins5026]

Man. just like Joe !

[@mikejacob3536]

A Democrat, ehhh?

[@Gamble661]

@@mikejacob3536 That was funny but...no, never.

[@bmweeny]

I once read that Hypoxia was a great "way to go" -, sudden loss of pressure at altitude without any oxygen - and you end up blissfully unaware of anything after a few seconds while you expire..

[@lolmao500]

As someone who was in immense pain before I clinically died for like 2 minutes due to lack of oxygen, my experience is that yeah, all pain disappears a few seconds before you pass out and ``die``. I can confirm you see your whole life flashing before your eyes but you stay the most time of that flashing in your best memory but I havent seen any tunnel or something like that.

[@Chloroxite]

​@@lolmao500oh shit. Im sorry you went through that, Im glad you're doing alright.

[@ksy6177]

​@@lolmao500 what were you thinking at that point in time? Were you thinking bout your loved ones and regrets about things you could have done

[@sirloin8745]

Auto-erotic asphyxiation? Kids ask your parents about Michael Hutchence, the INXS singer? Or maybe not!

[@ferretyluv]

Yeah Destin from Smarter Every Day almost died because he was just laughing as the oxygen level dropped in a chamber. He forgot how to put his mask on and needed someone to put it on for him. He just smiled and said “I don’t wanna die,” like you’d say “I don’t want mud on my shoes.”

[@sysbofh]

One thing people never remember: we don't feel the lack of oxygen, we feel the excess of CO2. Put the person on a sealed chamber, pump it full of nitrogen (helium? Don't care - just don't use CO or CO2) - without oxygen and he will just pass out. No sensation, no feeling, no nothing. The person just "turns off". And yes, that's how it happens: ask any diver about the dangers of hyperventilation. Keep it that way until he's dead, and problem solved. Easy, cheap, without suffering. Not even the asphyxiation feelings. Never understood why no one does it this way.

[@233kosta]

It's very simple. They come up with numerous elaborate methods meant to pass as "humane", when the true intent is to torture. I'd be fine with that provided they were honest about it, it fit the crime, and it was never a threat to innocents. As it stands though, they deny it's torture, it's the same for all capital crimes, and well... you know how little actual guilt matters to these systems...

[@user-ho1yn6ms7y]

We had to put our dog down last year. I remember it vividly. After the vet gave him the drug to stop his heart, his lips and eyelids twitched for 10 minutes after his heart had already stopped. I knew he wasn’t in any pain, but I still remember feeling so much sadness. My hypothesis was there was still blood reaching his brain even after his heart stopped; or at least enough blood for electrical signals to keep his brain partially active. RIP buddy ❤

[@fukhue8226]

Heartbreaking to put down animals. I don't need anymore death in my life.

[@stringlarson1247]

I'm sorry. It's such a tough thing to go through. I hate that part of the contract which we all sign when we bond with a pet. ooof.

[@phonkyfeel1]

Ahh. I’m so sorry.. they’re family. Hope you’re doing ok.

[@tnexus13]

Not a vet or medical, but my understanding of twitching like that is nerves and muscles slowly depolarising and triggering rogue muscle contractions independently of the central nervous system.

[@lisachiappetti6092]

Oh no honestly I can't even imagine

[@Metguy2000]

Having experienced 5 cardiac arrest in one day before getting a pacemaker, I can confirm from my experience that it takes maximum 4 seconds to lose consciousness and there is no pain associated at all. At the first arrest I fell off the chair and banged my head into a ceramic flower pot, didn’t feel a thing. The others took place in the hospital with no apparent injuries other than fatigue.

[@rthompson938]

Had heart attack with 5 separate VF episodes and don't remember a thing you just blackout and then slowly wake up slightly disoriented hearing people saying your name.

[@zoyadulzura7490]

I've heard so many stories like this, where a specific medical event isn't painful, and that the pain is in the recovery.

[@lynnesaunders4117]

​@@rthompson938my cardiologist told me that VF causes you to pass out. Afib with rapid ventricular response won't cause you to pass out

[@nayfepacewell8923]

Does it hurt? Blink once for yes, twice for no.

[@ninajones1175]

😂😂

[@GLASSB182]

"Uhh... he winked an eye at me. What does that mean?"

[@nerysghemor5781]

I am honestly not joking about this: I think we will clearly get an answer about how long someone is conscious when an executioner is visibly told to FUCK OFF. Something where the lip movements are extremely obvious.

[@QBCPerdition]

A scientist/doctor who was executed during the French Revolution basically tried something like this. He told his assistant that he would try to blink for as long as he could. He was decapitated, and the eyes slowly blinked a few times, then fluttered a bit, then stopped.

[@nerysghemor5781]

@@QBCPerdition Man, I admire that dedication to science right to the end. Horrible that he died likely for no reason but being willing to use his death to provide data…wow.

[@curiousgemini]

I like how Simon can talk about all these strange topics without losing his head.

[@adenwellsmith6908]

That tops if off.

[@jayneneewing2369]

LOL.

[@kerin191]

HA

[@greglivo]

I see what you did there.

[@oskyys6853]

So glad there’s a channel so high quality that still speaks bluntly despite KZbin monetisation

[@SuperbCuts]

this guy has like 20 different channels I believe I would not be surprised if he made an AI of himself at some point and just feeds it ideas

[@ultrascreens5206]

@@SuperbCuts was literally about to ask how many does he have fs. Im fed up seeing his face appear on my feed when im subbed to 0 of them lol

[@BlackDiamondYoutub]

Having 85 channels I'm sure he wouldn't mind one demonetized video every now and then

[@tophers3756]

What I don't understand is how a head can remain conscious after blood flow stops. I've had blood flow to my head cut off via a pressure to the veins in my neck. I lost consciousness in maybe 5 seconds. Plus people tend to pass out quickly when their blood preasure drops quickly. I don't understand how a head that loses all blood flow in an instant can remain lucid at all.

[@renaissanceredneck3695]

You answered your own question there chief. With blood flow cut off to the brain you'll pass out in 5-10 seconds. So a severed head can remain conscious for approx 5-10 seconds.

[@Adamethyst]

​@@renaissanceredneck3695what question did he ask? I think I'm missing something here..😏🤭

[@Adamethyst]

Ima take a poke at this and say electrical impulses over bloodflow is involved in consciousness..

[@chrisbartolini1508]

@@renaissanceredneck3695The blood flow is very limited, not cut off entirely, which is what a decapitation is.

[@poopandfartjokes]

Fighters often have involuntary responses after being knocked out. They seem to get “stuck” at the moment of unconsciousness. A good famous example is Brendon Schaub. He repeatedly tries to grab his opponent in a comical fashion when his opponent is no longer near him.

[@Ecosse57]

"it's just a flesh wound..."

[@stevesapp9987]

Even if you're still conscious for 2 or 3 seconds, that's a long time to be aware of yourself dying.

[@ostlandr]

Yeah. Seeing the bottom of the basket rushing up towards you has got to be terrifying.

[@thejoin4687]

@@ostlandrAnd it might have a few other heads in it.

[@duskeyowl2507]

You are going to remember the feeling for long.

[@scroatymcboogerballs8554]

Sure, and if you have committed an evil that necessitates a punishment like this in the modern era, I’m sure your victim was subjected to a much longer period of discomfort… It’s a punishment (literally the most severe one), it’s not supposed to be “Pleasant”

[@ctfan1486]

I think you were aware of dying as soon as they put you in that thing

[@VirtueGOAT]

Feeling existential here.. "There's no good way to die. There however; are "millions' and eventually we all will perish."

[@stringlarson1247]

A million ways to die, choose one.

[@ifIOnlyHadABrian]

@@stringlarson1247 uuuuh.... 99.99% of humans will NOT choose how they die.

[@stringlarson1247]

@@ifIOnlyHadABrian kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWjUqZx9raaqr7Msi=OlHlYlpMq6UO_gu4

[@sublimemime183]

Death isn’t nearly as frightening to me as the way I die. Ideally, I’d die in my sleep without pain. The fear of dying AND it being horrific feeling is awful

[@cooliipie]

Highly disagree

[@zoyadulzura7490]

Agreed. Once I'm gone, there will be no pain, nothing--I'll just be following in the same path as every person and living creature who has ever come before me. It's the getting there that's intimidating. The idea of passing out and being unconscious through the worst part (or the part unknown to me, I should say) doesn't sound as bad.

[@alphabravo7007]

(Someone else wrote this) Chickens might run around for a moment after their head is cut off, but snakes have a bit more of a serious reaction to decapitation; there are cases of snake heads still biting people up to 90 minutes after removal from the body.

[@SquashFactor]

I once passed out from standing up too fast. It took at most 2 seconds. My vision went gray and then tunnel vision and then I woke up on the floor a little while later. So I don't buy it that people are conscious longer than a second or two with literally 0 blood pressure in their head.

[@AubreePortune]

This might be Potts syndrome or Syncopy. My child has syncopy. Its scary when it happens. Lie down immediately and slowly sit up and then fully up.

[@craigsped]

Doesn’t the brain still connect to the body with Bluetooth? 😂

[@ryananderson4315]

Exactly.

[@ttm9227]

I did this once when I was a kid. I had just got done watching a movie, stood up and I just remember taking one step foward and starting to fall. Don’t know how long I was out for, felt like no time had passed but I woke up face down covered in vhs tapes that I had knocked of a shelf. But I’m not sure, for me there’s too many stories and examples we have of animals that make me thing it’s very possible for the rare person to retain some level of awareness

[@jayrussell3796]

​@@ttm9227I agree...I think it would be more on a personal level. I've ALMOST passed out two or three times, with grayness and tunnel vision but I was always cognitively aware. So .....

[@Seraphus87]

It's a bit difficult to get an answer from them after the deed is done...

[@thearpox7873]

Neurolink!

[@ninajones1175]

😂😂😂

[@ferretyluv]

I’m surprised that he didn’t mention that one scientist executed during the Reign of Terror who wanted to answer this question so he said that he’ll keep blinking until he can’t anymore. I think he supposedly blinked for 14 seconds.

[@gohmingxiu9527]

That’s a man for science I can respect 🫡

[@Thobeian]

​​@@ferretyluv I heard it was in 1970, and it was thenlast person to be executed by guillotine in France Accounts from that period are about as reliable as tabloids

[@sarahbums]

Even if they are responsive to stimuli, i really doubt they'd actually stay aware/lucid for more than a couple of seconds. I mean, there would be literally zero bloodflow to the brain. Just because they're moving doesn't mean they're fully aware. Hell, just because there's brain activity doesn't mean they're fully aware. I have epilepsy and lose consciousness during seizures. Sometimes, that includes falling/spastic movement, but when it's just a partial seizure, I've been told it looks like sleepwalking- like the lights are on but no one's home. I have zero memory of ANY of it afterwards. I'd imagine decapitation would be kinda like that.

[@steiner554]

A number of years ago there was a documentary that studied the most humane way of execution. It turned out that it was being in a chamber depleted of oxygen strangely enough. People just lost consciousness and died. The documentary was in the USA. So they went to whoever was the big boss that decided over execution methods and asked him why they didn't use this method as it was proven to be the best and most humans way. After some pushing the guy finally admitted that they wanted the victim to suffer. That was a rather shocking revelation for both the viewers as the documentary makers as well as the people that did the study.

[@ferretyluv]

It was nitrogen asphyxiation and wasn’t that a BBC documentary?

[@alias19]

@@ferretyluv “How to *ill a human being” (BBC) Still available on Vimeo.

[@unclekevin5094]

I remember reading that in many places in America this is how they kill stray animals like cats and dogs.

[@dewayneblue1834]

Very likely the way that the pilot of MH 370 killed the other 238 people on his plane.

[@dappergent9422]

Humans are an utter disgrace to the natural world. The evil what we are capable of is beyond words.

[@pairot01]

It's surprising hiw many people think one method of excecution or other is an instant off switch. I guess movies are to blame for a lot of it, the classic neck snapping comes to mind.

[@thomascoffin3292]

I actually know of one method that is fool-proof and instantaneous. The trade-off is that it is incredibly messy.

[@Voice_of_Rambol]

​@@thomascoffin3292 Red mist?

[@funnyyylock]

@@Voice_of_Rambol Boom!

[@Orangeyougladx3]

Yes! There was actually a killer who believed the movies and tried to snap a women’s neck. He sadly turned her whole head more than 180 degrees and she was still alive. A brutal and awful case

[@Chef_078]

@@thomascoffin3292and you only need a slightly modified PlayStation controller to control it.

[@aussierando9582]

The worst thing about getting your head cut off is that you have no body to lean on. You won’t have a gut feeling or a shoulder to cry on and you don’t have a leg to stand on lol but you could laugh your head off. So I guessing it may be a pain in the arse -- nope not that either. I’m just not putting my hand on why it’s a good idea, I would absolutely loose my head if it happened to me. I’m pretty attached to my body and like to think that I’m pretty level headed with a good head on my shoulders

[@Yupppi]

"Recent studies suggest dying from guillotine can take time" I wonder which ethical board approved this randomized control study.

[@anathardayaldar]

Its probably anecdotal.

[@thejoin4687]

@@anathardayaldarThe study was based on a slice of the population.

[@judithstrachan9399]

@@thejoin4687ouch!

[@Pilotpailie]

Maybe we should call a veterinarian in. They put my old dog down in about ten seconds.

[@hernanperez6550]

yeah thats what you think

[@chilli-wipe]

@@hernanperez6550 it literally shuts down everything in seconds

[@jenA9026]

My understanding is that the size of the animal (I include humans as animals) is also is a factor in how long various methods take.

[@Pilotpailie]

@@jenA9026 they put down livestock every day. Same method and time.

[@greasycervelo]

Watch and absorb the whole vid. The makers of the drugs won’t sell the, to the state anymore if used for executions

[@keithwald5349]

After I was gullotined I remained conscious for about 5 seconds. (I got better.)

[@hypsyzygy506]

Do you stay conscious for longer the more times you're guillotined?

[@brucebranch9482]

A mere flesh wound...

[@WilhelmFreidrich]

Thoughts and prayers

[@hansblitz7770]

Thanks Simon, I was just wondering about this.

[@snowangelnc]

9:12 I can understand not supporting the death penalty, and I can understand not wanting people to be guillotined. It's thought-provoking combination though; having a death penalty while at the same time not being ok with it being done by guillotine, even after acknowledging that it's probably the most humane of out of all the available options.

[@vellexander4422]

A little wild that Sergio Canavero popped up in this video after I just finished watching Joe Scott's video on head transplants which also came out today.... especially knowing how both Simon & Joe plan their videos weeks / months in advance lol

[@deliriumlb]

I came to the comments to say the same thing! they were both uploaded 7 hours ago as it shows on my screen, so they were both uploaded at nearly the same time, which is quite an odd coincidence indeed.

[@koceziurioboly]

I also came here to this video right after Joe's video 😂

[@Lemmon714_]

An 80's movie called Who is Julie covered the problems with head transplants.

[@onastick2411]

So after the transplant you'd be a paraplegic right? There's no way to reconnect the spinal chord, or has it advanced that much?

[@onastick2411]

@@Lemmon714_ I watched some porn star "giving head", didn't seem to be a problem.

[@warpedweft9004]

The Anne Boleyn description sounds like guppying. It follows agonal breathing after a cardiac arrest. I witnessed it in my mother who passed recently from pancreatic cancer. It was quite traumatising to witness even though I had been warned it could happen, and I knew she had already passed while it was happening. While the agonal breathing would be visible in the body, the guppying is mouth movements, almost like someone trying to vomit, so I guess it could have been possible.

[@Morning404]

I'm sorry to hear about your mother ❤

[@0DlNN]

Sorry for that man, may she be with God waiting for you and the rest of us. Yes this is true, I'm military and have seen this happen some times.

[@Michael_Michaels]

Damn! The grimmest video content I've watched recently! Thanks for sharing. 😬

[@jenA9026]

About 30 years ago, I remember reading an article about this in Bizzare magazine. Macabre but fascinating 😮

[@grasshopper-ln9us]

No way The blood pressure drop alone would render you unconscious

[@emptyemptiness8372]

5 seconds of oxygen in the brain...5 seconds to think " oh shit I've been behea........."

[@DepakoteMeister]

​@@emptyemptiness8372No. Loss of pressure, nothing to do with oxygen, will cause a person to lose consciousness almost immediately.

[@ricklee5802official_TSO_No2FAN]

Its a massive hypovalaemic shock, instant unconsciousness. However some individuals may not be affected by hypovalaemic shock.

[@DepakoteMeister]

@@ricklee5802official_TSO_No2FAN I don't think hypovolaemic shock comes into it, the unconsciousness comes from the sudden drop of blood pressure, much like a person can get from standing up to quick. It is instant (I'm sure it isn't, but for the casual observer it is).

[@ricklee5802official_TSO_No2FAN]

@@DepakoteMeister incorrect it is also known as a vaso vagal incident. Hypovolemic shock is a dangerous condition that happens when you suddenly lose a lot of blood or fluids from your body. This drops your blood volume, the amount of blood circulating in your body. That's why it's also known as low-volume shock. Hypovolemic shock is a life-threatening emergency. As a qualified critical care paramedic i can assure you. The sudden loss of blood volume and pressure would account for unconsciousness. However there are extreme cases of a persons head being conscious post decapitation.

[@g-urts5518]

I'd like the list of channels this guy has. It must be enormous

[@kenneybis1097]

He's got 37 different youtube channels with a total of 25,000 videos. If you watch an hour each day it'll take 55 years to finish them all.

[@stonefish1318]

If youtube stops it monetization, the stuff must be good!

[@trishapellis]

58 minutes after posting I got a bunch of ads so :P This is why it's important to click on Simon's videos asap.

[@TheForeignGamer]

@@trishapellis KZbin now has a policy in place where even demonetized videos will play ads like normal, with the main difference being the creator now gets almost none of the revenue from them.

[@meetontheledge1380]

@@TheForeignGamer Yes. And this is the most ''YT'' move imaginable. Thanks for confirming, just what I expected.

[@dedheddred1773]

God Damnn Simon. Let KZbin breath for a minute bro 😂

[@tekgamer33]

Seriously. He hosts way too many shows.

[@jesse_cole]

In the 12 seconds it took you to write that comment, Simon dropped 3 new videos.

[@Instructor1990]

Simon is KZbin

[@dedheddred1773]

@@Instructor1990 praise him 🙌

[@EyesOfByes]

0:18 Nope. Still monetised

[@KosmicJelly]

lol I had a good laugh when he said that, because doesn’t this guy have like a dozen or more channels? 😂

[@diemkt]

KZbin will still place ads on demonetized videos, the creator just won't get any ad revenue

[@TOGade-dj6jh]

Finally a proper explanation about this, I’ve always wondered how the brain can function when it loses all blood and oxygen in an instant.

[@gabijoanna1110]

This got me thinking about the 5 billionaires on the submarine that imploded. I was told that their death was so instant that they would’ve had no idea what was to come.

[@keirfarnum6811]

I don’t think they were all billionaires.

[@gabijoanna1110]

@@keirfarnum6811 oh! Thanks for the info.

[@valerieann6135]

Do you really believe that story?

[@hypsyzygy506]

They had plenty of time to realise they were in big trouble...

[@zoyadulzura7490]

@@hypsyzygy506 I heard that there likely were no warning signs, nothing. They were obliterated faster than nerve signals travel through the brain, so they felt literally nothing.

[@randomramblings2325]

Is it wrong that I want a second part to this video? Very interesting, thank you.

[@jrmckim]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmXLd4WchMqNjposi=wlIHFtA-gntqn1uN It's by Joe Scott but goes deeper into the subject touched on in this Video.

[@jasmijnariel]

The top part? Or the bottom part?

[@raymondmartin6737]

There is an auto insurance company, which I have seen in NY State, with the name DeCap, maybe it covers Dismemberments. 😮

[@kennethnielsen3864]

Thanks for sharing.

[@TheForeignGamer]

Hard to even post a comment about this topic without KZbin's Big Brother filter automatically deleting it within seconds.

[@conservativepineapples6203]

I’m confident my comment in reference to Pfizer will likely put me in KZbin jail!

[@friedrichjunzt]

Yeah, really annoying

[@jasonconrad4314]

But yet here you are, making a comment complaining

[@TheForeignGamer]

@@jasonconrad4314 Eh you know, apparently the corporate overlords up at Google don't like it when you talk about the French people's very inspired use of their lovely little contraption during the Revolution.

[@conservativepineapples6203]

@@TheForeignGamer That was the Guillotine, I believe.

[@bboi1489]

Pre vid opinion: I always thought people saying they do was dumb, especially just because some guy blinked. If your body can twitch after death because of firing nurons, of course your face would too. It doesn't mean you're conscious, especially with all the blood leaving your brain that quickly.

[@Somedude20282]

Good point, didnt think of the blood leaking out immediately- However, everything we need to be conscious lies within our skulls. Its not a stretch to think- perhaps it can sustain longer than we can see by electrical signals alone.

[@0DlNN]

Strange you saying they are dumb since you don't have proofs and admitedly says that its just your opinion. Instead I think that the head still have some feelings and consciousness, since I've seen video of a beheaded person, which still had expressions for some time after decaptation. The blood doesn't rush out immediately, there is still some inside of the brain feeding it for some short time.

[@TheDoomWizard]

Insulted by the slap lol

[@ScienceChap]

The heart is often stopped by surgeons conducting operations. Medically speaking, I believe that death is associated with the death of the brain rather than the heart.

[@onastick2411]

It's a tricky subject, because animals like frogs can be frozen solid, so would by definition,be considered dead, but can then be defrosted and hop around to their hearts content. So no brain function isn't an absolute definition.

[@Thobeian]

​@@onastick2411their bodies also have adaptations to account for that freezing though. When the body freezes, water in the cells exoand outword, so your cells have to be able to account for that and not be destroyed by crystalization. They're also cold blooded, so their entire metabolism is based on how much heat they have in the environment, so it can theoretically slow down to the literal bare minimum for brain function, whoch they can take out of fat reserves to fuel that activity. Not a biologist, just sputting out connecture, but it makes sense why smaller, cold blooded bodies would be more suitable for deep freeze or hibernation like that.

[@jamesburns9975]

I agree, my ex also agrees, the heart was for inflicting suffering

[@duartesimoes508]

So it is.

[@joshuah9109]

2:01 "the disembodied head felt INSULTED after being slapped." (If she could talk) "It's one thing to cut my head off, but slapping me! how DARE you!!"

[@Redonepunch]

haha, I thought the same. "now you've crossed the line"

[@whattheflux2733]

Greta Thunberg face....

[@danstrayer111]

'tis but a scratch

[@judithstrachan9399]

Charlotte was a Girondist, a moderate. She probably accepted execution as a small price to pay if the revolution got less bloody. The slap would have reminded her that there was no guarantee that it would. Poor Charlotte.

[@jonahs.757]

It seems obvious to me that you'd be conscious for at least some recordable amount of time. Probably not long enough to really process what's happened even when you're expecting it.

[@string_fellow_hawk]

Great job Emma .

[@thomaswilkinson3241]

I don't know about decapitation, but I now about cardiac arrest. During my almost 9 years in Intensive Care, I earned experiences with patients, that experienced sudden heart failure and how, if observed right when it happened, immediately applied CPR saved them. Bad thing is, that these people often stayed concious when we started chest compression and defibrillation. If applied in the first 30 seconds after their Pulse gives out, a Patient can still remain conscious, feel pain and even speak.

[@phillip6083]

The brain remains "alive" for a minute or 2 upon severing the spinal nerve and blood flow.the center that processes pain remains active but uts like an engine running while the car is in neutral.the immediate shock of the nerve being severed would make a person unconscious but not exclude the ability to think.its just that not a lot of complex thought happens when your unconscious. But there are likely cases where decapitated individuals remained or regained consciousness before the brain could die of anoxia. I read one case where it would blink yes and no answers for several seconds.

[@richardlbowles]

It's like that punctuation joke, isn't it: Charles the First cracked a joke half an hour after his head was cut off. Charles the First cracked a joke. Half an hour after, his head was cut off.

[@CAP198462]

I remember hearing this as a weird factoid back in my primary school days. The conversation would start out with did you know, and conclude with the victim could see their beheaded body before they expired. Was I a strange kid, or just surrounded by them?

[@smokejaguar67]

Brilliant video

[@aalavbrisbeatz]

They are right when they say a single minute of pain is incalculably long for the person feeling it, because while a woman is having strong contractions during childbirth and those contractions only last for 2 minutes, it feels more like 20 minutes 😅😭

[@jamesburns9975]

Childbirth? Meh get kicked in the bollocks and understand suffering. No woman ever looked at another woman giving birth and said, nah not for me. Everyman winces instinctively when they witness a bollock strike via proxy.

[@PhilSet-10]

Yeah, but the decapitated head ain’t swearing and cursing at you for causing the whole ordeal.

[@aalavbrisbeatz]

@@PhilSet-10 you must be a misogynistic man 🙄

[@dianewaynewood4477]

​@@PhilSet-10Ha!

[@SeanTR420]

The last time I came this early, she left disappointed

[@marksimpson8577]

Comment of the day. Thanks, I needed the laugh.

[@Somedude20282]

😂 awh buddy

[@cooliipie]

2017 wants its comment back

[@jlarry1]

I will never stop subscribing to your channels sir

[@Flyaway99]

Interesting timing

[@blitzzer24]

Last time i was this early I still had a head.

[@generalimlerith8356]

And there goes my KZbin monetization had me laughing Simon is a jokester 😂 and true at the same time

[@fuffoon]

As explained to me by a brilliant surgeon from Boston, nobody has ever complained.

[@joelb8653]

Lovecraft wrote a horrifying short story about this topic.

[@ostlandr]

So did Steven King. It's called "The breathing method."

[@alexkorocencev7689]

Greetings from the Joe Scott audience!

[@DenethordeSade.90]

Ooh did Joe mention Simon or something?

[@progunil]

@@DenethordeSade.90joe put out a similar video today. after this myself and seemingly a shitload of other people were sent directly too that. all the comments are simon comments

[@DenethordeSade.90]

@@progunil I just finished watching aid video but thank you

[@MikeJones-vb1me]

Probably shouldn’t have been the last video I watched before falling asleep

[@philipppatzen3]

1. I fell from a bike, driving down a hill, flying trough the air, beating a teeth out and being unconscious for a wile. 2. I fell from a climbing reck and destroying the nerve endings in my left side face and was in a hospital for a whole month. 3. I broke my hand and had to operate. 4. I fell from a bike in another situation, knocking a tooth out and biting trough my lower lit fully. 5. I strained my ankle multiple times. From all of those, wich hurt most and gave me most suffering was the straining on my ankle wich occurred multiple times. all other situations ether made me pass out or put me immediately in a state of shock, wich is a very powerful and pleasant experience, specially when you can see the hole, wich you just bit trough you own lip and have the thought that it's kinda cool though XD your limbs do not perceive pain. they create a warning signal wich gets delivered to your brain. every pain you feel is no physical pain but mental pain. your mind has some sort of safety mechanism where, when it receives to many pain / warning signals from your body, it simply cuts the connection.

[@marsrocket]

I practically pass out from standing up too fast because my blood pressure goes down. I find it hard to believe that anybody could remain conscious for more than a second or two if the head was removed and the blood pressure to the brain essentially went to zero immediately. I can’t speak for rats though.

[@blindbrad4719]

Agreed, me too. I couldnt imagine what exposed nerves would feel like though for even such a short time especially the spinal cord.

[@MScEngD]

Most people are hardly even conscious before the guillotine..

[@PhilipPedro2112]

Let them eat shrooms!

[@swedishmetalbear]

I remember a teacher telling me about this experiment... And I had panic anxiety attacks for weeks afterwards.

[@MaxWalker-cs5wy]

Watching your videos the shape of ornaments and so on in the background resembles a ford transit always makes me laugh

[@fett713akamandodragon5]

It's too funny that Simon puts out this video and an hour later Joe Scott put out a video about head transplants. 🤣

[@rhov-anion]

I found that coincidence hilarious. Great minds!

[@cooliipie]

Two heads think alike

[@njclawsart]

Joe Also made a video on this topic years ago. One of the first videos I ever saw from him

[@jonntischnabel]

The German city of "mains" 😂 .

[@KarynHill]

The video I watched immediately before this one was about Canavero. Strange, but sometimes life happens like that.

[@TheMadTube]

Probably Joe Scott. Interesting, since he did a fascinating video a few years ago about this exact subject. Today, he uploaded a new video about the head transplant Simon spoke of at the end.

[@KarynHill]

@@TheMadTube That's the one!

[@derekec]

Given the spectrum from lightheadedness into fainting through loss of consciousness with increasing levels of dropped blood pressure, I can't imagine any awareness after decap. Electrical activity on the other hand I'd imagine goes bonkers leading to all kind of reflexive motor activity...maybe lips moving, eye's gazing...all cranial nerve controlled of course. I've read of anecdotal stories of eyes gazing in the direction of stimulation which is where my confidence wanes (and may too be reflexive) but still, I mostly trust my logic.

[@Mikohanyou]

How eerie that this video came out, I was just thinking about this for the past two days.

[@noway377]

Okay, Jeffrey Dahmer....

[@Mikohanyou]

@@noway377 LOL It wasn't because of anything nefarious, It was because of a video game character died that way and made me feel sorry for them that they were conscious still even after getting the axe to the neck.

[@vastified6821]

@@Mikohanyou Mimir in GoW by chance? lol

[@Badookum]

​@@noway377anime pfp

[@noway377]

@Mikohanyou I was just giving you shit brother, I think we've all been curious about this sort of stuff. Obviously, I've wondered the same thing since I clicked on the video.

[@mountainjay]

I don't understand, why can't they just ask them to write down on a piece of paper if it hurt or not after they get guillotined?

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

...write down... on a piece of paper... With what hands, mountainjay? What hands? The ones that aren't connected to the brain anymore? Iirc there was some case where they asked a criminal to blink (or something like that) after the beheading, he didn't mention it in the video. It's less good evidence either way than having brain activity monitoring to show what is actually going on inside the brain afterwards, so it seems fine not to include century old "case studies".

[@gowdsake7103]

You are kidding right ?

[@thejoin4687]

@@gowdsake7103 It's obviously a joke. They'd use paper free methods to ensure environmental sustainability.

[@mountainjay]

@@gowdsake7103 why wouldn't they be able to write it down if it hurt? Because they were illiterate at the time??

[@judithstrachan9399]

And the beat goes on….

[@crossface222]

I’ve been choked out. It takes about 7 seconds.

[@beefstew4698]

Oh..😢

[@PaulHarris-sl1ct]

I think that Mary Shelly posed the question in her book about Dr Frankenstein's creation The creature asks about where certain knowledge resides in his pieced together body. I think it was something about playing a flute

[@ZerofeverOfficial]

Joe Scott beat you to the punch on this video (kind of) just a few hours ago, great minds think alike!

[@saadutuber4920]

Someone should get this episode to Karl Pilkington & Ricky Gervais ASAP 😂

[@EddieVanAidan]

Just need to count how many blinks the deceased person does to confirm the hypothesis

[@saadutuber4920]

@@EddieVanAidan exactly 🤣

[@hypo345]

When one considers that a cervical spine strike will temporarily render someone unconscious I can’t see that having received such a massive trauma to the spine that anyone losing their head by the guillotine would be aware of anything.

[@paulis7319]

To answer the video title: Not for long

[@jeffreypardy2831]

when the brain stops functioning is when the soul leaves the mind

[@mountainjay]

You mean the brain

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

Have you tested that theory?

[@jeffreypardy2831]

@@mountainjay the brain facilitates the mind

[@jeffreypardy2831]

@@AnotherPointOfView944 yes

[@AnotherPointOfView944]

@@jeffreypardy2831 Oh fantastic, then you must be the first person to ever see a soul leaving a mind. Did you video it?

[@mcdouche2]

Life is suffering. It is the height of hubris to suggest that it is incumbent on us to eliminate it in death.

[@roberthenry9319]

????????????

[@zoyadulzura7490]

That is the most fatalistic thing I've ever read. That's how it is, and so we should leave it that way? Nope. "With great power comes great responsibility"--we have the capacity to alleviate pain and suffering, and so we must.

[@mcdouche2]

@@zoyadulzura7490 so is the opposite true as well? We have the capacity to create pleasure, should it be our goal to do that as well? Illicit drugs claim to do both alleviate pain and create pleasure. How is that working out? There is a great balance to this universe, any attempts to disrupt it come with tremendous consequences.

[@ch5139]

That was just the video for a wet miserable UK afternoon !

[@AnimeShinigami13]

A terrifying head transplant related story is the SCP Foundation's "End of Death" canon where everybody is immortal but not eternally youthful. And brain transplants become a thing using anomalous means if you're filthy rich. It's frequently looked down on as distasteful, while cybernetics become ever more popular as a way to make up for damage to one's body. If you want a series of stories with seriously dark shit going on, this is a good one.

[@thejoin4687]

Is it a brain transplant or a body transplant?

[@Burfield957]

This reminds me of Answers With Joe video.

[@colnuttall9035]

Its interesting that USA considers decapitation as inconsistent with current beliefs. Some years back the US Military purchased hundreds of guillotines along with specially made rail cars, fitted with manacles for transporting unwilling humans. It seemed they intended to use Walmart Stores as mass holding camps and execution facilities during insurrections. Wlmarts were chosen because of their available floor area and immediate access to road and rail deliveries. Walmart apparently did a deal with Military to allow such things.

[@Primus54]

When fighter pilots not wearing G-Suits pull too many positive Gs, the onset of G-Loc (loss of consciousness) happens in mere seconds. Such a scenario occurred in 2007 with the crash of Blue Angel #6 near the end of their demonstration.

[@goiterlanternbase]

2:58 That is the part that is definitely wrong, because the suffering will end after a minute. Pain is not so much a torture, as it is suffering from expected pain and remembering the pain and suffer.

[@The-Beyonder]

You've likely never felt real excruciating pain then. There's a point where pain makes time feel slow and a minute will feel MUCH longer. It's like time dilation. The anticipation of the suffering can be just as bad, but don't think that a minute of unimaginable excruciating pain isn't just as bad if not worse. There's a reason people fear it in anticipation if they've already experienced terrible pain to begin with

[@goiterlanternbase]

@@The-Beyonder Still it ends. Not like, there is no more pain, but there is no more. You can't imagine this🤗 The most fitting example is the last day. How did it end. Do you remember how tired you were, the second after you fell asleep? You can't and it is the same with the last pain your brain feels. It is not processed and not stored anywhere😉

[@The-Beyonder]

@@goiterlanternbase Everything ends. That's not a good argument. Telling that to someone going through excruciating pain doesn't help much at all since again time seems to slow down since you can feel every single tiny moment and it's magnified since it's hard to focus on anything else

[@jacquelinekenknight9280]

@@The-Beyonderand once you’ve felt excruciating pain, you live in fear of ever feeling such pain again. You might forget the actual sensations, but the fear of it never leaves you.

[@The-Beyonder]

@@jacquelinekenknight9280 exactly

[@georgeallen7667]

You sing, "I Ain't Got No Body" by the great Dr. John. New Orleans fame.

[@johnconnor2572]

Funy af to me that this video and Joe Scott's about head transplants came so close togther in he feed

[@reiniervandersandt]

Good story !

[@cheezewizard]

Joe Scott got a new haircut and accent

[@cleverusername9369]

This is VERY much Joe would and very likely has covered

[@cheezewizard]

@@cleverusername9369 yeah, one of his first videos to kinda take-off was on this exact subject kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHnQap2gdq-hqacsi=fA31vJCnDwfe7Tz0 good video

[@Tmaget]

The first 30 seconds could be described as "in to the shadows" in a nutshell.

[@FahadAyon]

Curiosity always gets better of me 😅

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting video

[@user-xs2bf6vb9t]

How long are you still aware if you are kill by "Death by Snu Snu" ?

[@cloudbloom]

The background music seems a bit loud

[@jamess3241]

Close your eyes and lean forward

[@TrueMithrandir]

no it doesn't baby ears