Once the blood vessels in the neck are severed, the oxygen supply is halted. Movement would only be possible in tissue or structures still attached to the head, such as muscles for moving the eyes or the mouth because the nerves supplying those muscles would still be connected. Most recently, understanding in this area of research has turned to what people who suffer death or near-death experiences are aware of when going through such events. People who have suffered a heart attack or cardiac arrest describe events that were occurring to them, or in the room around them while undergoing resuscitation.
This suggests that while their heart may not be beating, their brain is certainly aware of what is going on around them, even though they displayed none of the clinical signs of consciousness. Other studies have shown activity in the brain 30 minutes after the heart has stopped beating. These so-called delta brain waves are also often seen in stages of sleep and relaxation.
The activity detected in humans in these studies is large enough to be detected by an electroencephalogram a device measuring electrical activity in the brain.
Studies in other organisms have suggested that even hours after death, gene expression and activity is still occurring and in some cases increasing in quantity. The group has exploited poverty and unemployment to recruit youth in their fight to establish Islamic rule in the area. Many locals complain that they have benefited little from the province's ruby and gas industries. The BBC's Jose Tembe reports from the capital, Maputo, that the latest attack was probably the worst carried out by the militants.
Many people are shocked, and they are calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, he adds. The gunmen chanted "Allahu Akbar" "God is greatest", in English , fired shots, and set homes alight when they raided Nanjaba village on Friday night, the state-owned Mozambique News Agency quoted survivors as saying.
Two people were beheaded in the village and several women abducted, the news agency added. A separate group of militants carried out another brutal attack on Muatide village, where they beheaded more than 50 people, the news agency reported. Villagers who tried to flee were caught, and taken to the local football pitch where they were beheaded and chopped to pieces in an atrocity carried out from Friday night to Sunday, privately-run Pinnacle News reported. I made it to February before I really lost it.
When I got back to New York, I started seeing a counselor specializing in post-traumatic-stress disorder. Last year, I broke off my engagement; she deserved better than what I have to offer. But the video changed something for me, crushed the necessary buffer between the abstract examination of a dead body and the pain and horror of that death.
It left me aching to leave, to run away, to live a purely aesthetic life, a life of quiet sensual contentment. And I could leave, really. My one-bedroom apartment is now worth an absurd amount—I could sell, and escape this city, and go somewhere small, somewhere still untouched.
The autopsy will answer some questions, though likely many of the answers it provides will be rejected by the doubters. But the footage looked real to me. Already a subscriber?
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