When you hang do you feel pure agonizing suffering regardless?

[27clubBRIAN]

Ya know when you see people hang fully suspended in movies and such but there's no movement when they kick the chair / bucket? Does this imply that they broke their spines and they enter unconsciousness , or do you just kinda stand their unable to move or do anything but feel agonizing suffering ?

 

[Jrmull1993]

During a true hanging, the process is carried out in a manner intended to cause immediate brain stem death, which in medical terms is legally dead. The actual brain cannot feel pain. This requires enough of a drop to break the brain stem.

When someone is moving while they are suspended, they are still alive and the brain is sending involuntary signals to trigger movement to try and "correct" the situation. When movement such as this occurs, the person is conscious, and will eventually die due to afixiation and/or blood loss to the brain.

If you lookup death certificates (in the USA) where the person died due to hanging, they will list either Afixiation or Strangulation.

 

[Worndown]

Long drop breaks the neck and is found in judicial hangings and movies. Everything else is short/no drop. The slip knot tightens blocking blood flow and you quickly pass out. The brain is dead after 6 minutes. After that it is just waiting for the body to die. It might thrash around a little but the owner is no longer home.

 

[AloneInCollege]

Movies and media always get suicide wrong. They want it to be dramatic and cinematic. But once you know how suicide actually works, seeing everything that they get wrong becomes annoying. A lot like once you learn about how guns actually work, a lot of scenes in movies become laughable or really annoying.

 

[Yumeko.dreams]

Movies and media always get suicide wrong. They want it to be dramatic and cinematic. But once you know how suicide actually works, seeing everything that they get wrong becomes annoying. A lot like once you learn about how guns actually work, a lot of scenes in movies become laughable or really annoying.

Like the classic "ah! My lungs!" And the guy keeps on going for a bit and doesn't even buckle any.
Or the double classic headshot that hit the forehead, with a small caliber that probably stopped in the frontal lobe, and the guy either stands there, or just falls immediately.
"Muh headshots are instant kills!!1!"

 

[BadChoices]

Movies and media always get suicide wrong. They want it to be dramatic and cinematic. But once you know how suicide actually works, seeing everything that they get wrong becomes annoying. A lot like once you learn about how guns actually work, a lot of scenes in movies become laughable or really annoying.

I wonder if holywood ever got anything right

 

[sylvey]

I wonder if holywood ever got anything right

Hollywood would never even be able to portray human suffering as accurately as they might hope to portray it.

 

[Worndown]

I wonder if holywood ever got anything right

Every so often they do it right. Face it, normal things are boting. Nobody pays to watch people wash dishes or hang themselves and just pass out. No excitement or drama there.
Follow a sound plan and have a gloriously dull departure.

 

[JOkE2109]

Long drop breaks the neck and is found in judicial hangings and movies. Everything else is short/no drop. The slip knot tightens blocking blood flow and you quickly pass out. The brain is dead after 6 minutes. After that it is just waiting for the body to die. It might thrash around a little but the owner is no longer home.

Very good way of putting it as "the owner is no longer home". Didn't think of it like that.