~ the guillotine ~

Although indelibly associated in literature, the cinema, television and the European cultural tradition generally with the French Revolution, 1789-1793, and with the death penalty in France, the machine that beheads by means of a bIade that falls between two grooved vertical columns is in reality much older. Small primitive versions were used for the execution of nobles as early as the fourteenth century, especially in Scotland.

Science quickly discovered a new and surprising fact (confirmed since by modern neurophysiology) that a head cut off by a swift slash of axe or guillotine knows that it is a beheaded head while it rolls along the ground or into the basket – consciousness survives long enough for such a perception. I've read things to prove that is true so who am I to disagree?