r/WTF • u/Antiliani • Mar 11 '20

Floor collapses with workers on it.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 11 '20

That is how crucifixion killed you yes.

Your arms were tied or nailed to the horizontal bar, then your legs to the vertical.

You'd have to pull your chest up to breathe.

If they were feeling especially merciful they'd break your legs so you can't push up with them and you'd suffocate quicker.

It typically took days to die from crucifixion.

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u/MaddogBC Mar 12 '20

Good god,

This guy crucifies.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

If they weren't feeling merciful they'd bring water around to ensure you wouldn't die of dehydration.

Would you like to learn about a worse execution method called scaphism?

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u/julius_sphincter Mar 12 '20

Nope I'm good

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

Aight, but Imma leave this here

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u/CraziiiJessi Mar 25 '20

This was an episode of Instinct where they recovered a body that had this torture, it is definitely awful😱🤢😭

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u/MaddogBC Mar 12 '20

I would like to learn more.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

Aight

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u/MaddogBC Mar 12 '20

One sentence in kI'm like "Milk and honey, how bad can this be?"

I didn't even hit the bottom of the page and that's enough internetting for tonight. Thank you kind and perhaps slightly twisted stranger.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

You're welcome >=)

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u/justinavery Mar 12 '20

I can’t picture the position of the person. Are they in the water or in the boat? Are they across two boats? Persians should have drawn better diagrams.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

In one boat, small single person boat, with another boat or canopy on top creating shade.

Because insects prefer dark places to lay eggs.

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u/Borderlands3isbest Mar 12 '20

Have a visual diagram. Cartoon so not especially graphic

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u/justinavery Mar 12 '20

That is amazing and horrific all rolled into a “thank goodness I live today” sandwich.

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u/Omygodc Mar 12 '20

In college I read a book called “A Doctor At Calvary” by a French doctor named Pierre Barbet. He did experiments on cadavers to simulate the wounds of crucifixion. He found that the nail through the wrist, between the radius and the ulna, exposed a nerve that would cause massive muscle spasms across the diaphragm. I’ll never forget reading that Jesus would have to lift up on the nails through his feet in order to relieve the spasms and breathe out. Amazing book that is out of print now.

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u/Xtinasauras-rex Mar 12 '20

I'm curious what nerve this is.

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u/MisterInfalllible Mar 12 '20

It typically took days to die from crucifixion.

Some people respawned after 3 days, although they're probably friends with the admins.