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About people dying from beheadings: I read somewhere about a French scientist/philosopher who was executed at the guillotine, and which turned his own execution into a scientific experiment. He was supposed to blink his eyes slowly for as long as he remained conscious, which was something like 14 blinks - suggesting that decapitation does not result in instant death.
When the romantic Madame Roland where executed she put on quite a performance, which caused the executioner to hold her head out to the crowd and slap it. This caused her to blush.
From these two examples, I gather that the severed head is fully capable of functioning, except for speech and other abilities which originate in the remaining part of the body. Therefore, if behaeding was connected with much pain, I would think that severed head would show signs of pain.
People who has been to the electric chair has their skin boiling, which have resulted in them having to wear special suits without buttons, as these would melt in the heat. Now unless the electric current in some way prevents nervesignals to be sent to the brain, that has got to be really painful.
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