Does The Head Of A Guillotined / Decapitated Individual Remain Briefly Alive?
Yes, but only for eleven seconds. I had seen this on the discovery channel. A french medical researcher made an arrangement with this particular Prince in 1796 before execution that if he was aware of his surroundings after being beheaded, he would blink in a complex manner to differentiate from random blinking and grimacing, in order to help the researcher with his work. He started blinking and as his head was severed continued to blink 1 time every second. You cannot speak after this because your vocal cords are not receiving any air and are actually in the lower portion of the neck.
