TD 82: Life Does Survive - Guillotine

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The fact that the guillotine was invented as a humane and painless method of execution, but the current   medical consensus is that life does survive, for a period of roughly thirteen seconds, varying slightly depending on the victim's build, health and the immediate circumstances of the decapitation.

ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French, named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), the French physician who recommended its use for executions in 1789.