Crucifixion was invented by the Persians in BC and developed, during Roman times, into a punishment for the most serious of criminals. The upright wooden cross was the most common technique, and the time victims took to die would depend on how they were crucified.
Those accused of robbery were often tied to the crucifix and, because they could better support their weight with their arms, might survive for several days. One of the most severe methods of crucifixion put the arms straight above the victim.
Someone nailed to a crucifix with their arms stretched out on either side could expect to live for no more than 24 hours. Seven-inch nails would be driven through the wrists so that the bones there could support the body's weight. The nail would sever the median nerve, which not only caused immense pain but would have paralysed the victim's hands. Well, let me show you. Fair warning: If you have a weak constitution for gore, best to stop reading now…. Crucifixion begins not with the victim, but rather with the executioner.
The reason that this is so is because if an executioner is given complete sovereignty over the initial death blows of the victim, the punishment may be doled out with as high a level of caprice and sadism as possible in that moment.
For this reason, the possibilities for the authoring of physiological pain are endless. For some, this was simply the cross bar that their arms would be bound to, for others, it was the entire cross.
But even more so, the lifting and carrying of something that heavy for any distance would also continue to cause respiratory distress and muscle fatigue. Our mission is to equip students and faculty with reasons for following Jesus. It is both compassionate and considerate as well as rational and reflective.
Upon arrival at their final destination, the victim would be attached to their cross by any combination of ropes and nails. Nails would be struck though the wrist or palm and also at the ankle. A peg was placed near the groin area so that while the victim hung arms outstretched horizontally and feet firmly attached together vertically, they would have access to a small seat.
The purpose of the peg was to give the victim a place to attempt to balance for temporary relief as to fail to do so left the victim at the mercy of gravity forcing their thorax down, compressing the space for their lungs to expand and therefore making it impossible for their diaphragm to allow oxygen into their chest cavity. Thusly, if the victim failed to pull themselves up onto the peg, then they were unable to breathe.
Since the victim was already fatigued and the points of their body at which they would have to leverage themselves had recently been impaled, the resulting effect was a choice left up to the victim to decide: suffocate slowly while you fight for air, or bear weight on the points where you have been impaled, thus reopening any wounds that have clotted on your back as well as re-experiencing the pain that comes with impalement while enduring whatever body weight has not been accounted for sitting squarely on your genitofemoral nerves.
Cardiac Rupture : this is where one or more ventricles or atria of your heart muscle becomes lacerated and you bleed out internally. Hypovolaemic Shock : this is when you bleed out to such a degree that there is no longer enough blood to carry oxygen to the rest of your body and you experience multiple organ failure. Syncope : In this case, the victim loses consciousness due to a fall in blood pressure and fails to regain consciousness fast enough to bring their body back to balance on the peg.
Respiratory Acidosis : This occurs when carbon dioxide builds to a toxic level in the bloodstream; which can occur when the victim is subjected to prolonged respiratory distress weakening the muscles in the chest wall. Takotsubo Syndrome : Otherwise known as death by broken heart, is an emotional stress or anxiety-induced surge of adrenaline and norepinephrine that creates a toxic environment for cardiac tissue.
The fact that there are so many possibilities for cause of death makes it near impossible to determine precisely which one is the most likely. Moreover, the duration of time a human being can endure in this state also has an unknown limit. As far as documented cases go however, the longest duration of time a human being has endured this torture is of course also the most famous: Jesus of Nazareth.
Victims who experience any combination of heart failures or embolisms very often also experience a secondary condition that develops as a result: Pleural Effusion, or fluid build-up in the chest cavity. Dan Westerman. John Dery, is an emergency room physician at Sparrow Hospital, in Lansing. Once the Romans began physical torture, they inflicted a slow death with maximum pain, just as the film depicts.
The kind of repeated, deep scourging, with jagged pieces of metal on the whips that tore through flesh and muscle, was meant to weaken the individual. Dery suggests that even the Romans felt it was too gruesome to nail someone to the cross in the city, so they first tied the lbs. Though artwork often depicts Christ nailed to the cross through his palms, Gibson, and Dery know better.
They would not be able to relax. Believe it or not, the survival instinct would need those nailed feet for leverage while on the cross, according to Dery.
In other words, you actively breathe in and you passively exhale. You have to work very hard to get air out of your lungs.
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