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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by mfoy_ on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @10:57AM (#19086475)
You might find this mobidly interesting... http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/06/lavoisier-blinks/
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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by apo on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:55PM (#19092808)
Debunked here:

As for the story of the postmortem experiment with Lagrange, no mention is made of it in any of the reputable biographies of Lavoisier. ...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed081p629

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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by gotocake on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @11:12AM (#19086630)
Oh wow. That really is dark and fascinating, thanks!
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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by reitoei on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:36PM (#19087452)
I know what this is, and I'm not clicking it.
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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by mfoy_ on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:49PM (#19087606)
There's no graphic images. It's not a "shock" or "gotcha" link.

The TL;DR is that the head can stay "alive" for some time after decapitation. The nominal example (see the URL) being Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier who was guillotined during the French Revolution and committed to blinking for as long as he possibly could after being decapitated. There are also more modern examples "thanks" to ISIS.

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Re:Ike Jime, the Japanese Slaughter Method for Tastier Fish by reitoei on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @06:04PM (#19090985)
Oh I didn't think you were trying to trick me or anything. I read about Lavoiser and the guillotine when I was a child and it stuck with me.

The Russian experiment with the reanimated dogs heads... I'll let you google that one yourself.

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