[aruanan]

A Colorado woman is living miracle, doctors say, after a car crash separated her skull from her spine, literally decapitating her from the inside, according to a Denver news report.

How do people come up with such moronic crap? Decapitation, literal decapitation, is when the head is severed from the body, not the skull becoming detached from the vertebral column. Having your head taken off by a guillotine or an ax or a tornado-blown stop sign is decapitation. What happened to this woman was disarticulation, not decapitation (though disarticulation can also be used to mean amputation).

[Shimmer128]

disarticulation (making notes)

[robinf]

Moronic crap? At a time when an individual needs positive thoughts and prayers, you come up with the negative. I’m Shannon’s mom...believe me when I say it has always been referred to as an internal decapitation. If you have better information than the doctors who have been treating her, we would certainly welcome your medical expertise in treating Shannon!!! What you say makes sense, but in the scheme of things it is not important the words used - it’s your well wishes that matter!