iblamemyself
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Crazy doctor obsessed with hangings tried to find out how people die when they hang from a rope. So he hanged himself 12 times. Found out that it's very painful and that people die from not getting blood into their brains because of the noose pressing against the neck, not from suffocation.
The Man Who Hanged Himself 12 Times for Science
Reto U. Schneider's newly-translated The Mad Science Book is packed with tales of bizarre science experiments - including one about a forensic researcher who hanged himself repeatedly in 1905 for a study on hanging.
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