Kinda makes you wonder what happened to those who got the chop in England and France centuries ago...or those getting the Religion of Pieces treatment today...experience in the moments after...well,you know.
From HowStuffWorks.com:
Both King Charles I and Queen Anne Boleyn are reported to both have showed signs of trying to speak following their beheadings (by executioners’ swords, rather than by guillotine). German researcher S.T. Sommering cited reports of decapitated heads that have ground their teeth and that the face of one decapitated person “grimaced horribly” when a physician inspecting the head poked the spinal canal with his finger.
Perhaps most famously was the study conducted by a Dr. Beaurieux in 1905 of the head of executed criminal Henri Languille. Over the course of 25 to 30 seconds of observation, the physician recorded managing to get Languille to open his eyes and “undeniably” focus them on the doctor’s twice by calling the executed man’s name.
A lot of evidence points to those people being able to function for 20-30 seconds after.
If you do a search on that stuff, you’ll get some articles. One I remember talked about a guy getting done in by the guillotine and after the doctor picking up the head. First the eyes were real wide and looking for the body, and he blinked when asked questions, as in can you hear me etc.
He was responsive for a bit, then the eyes glazed over in death.
I for one am not anxious to find out, so I’ll be doing my best to keep it attached, and those around me. However, if it comes down to it, and it’s that or renounce God, I’ll take the loss of my head.
OMG! A snakes head probably is just a involuntary reaction but a human, OMG!