From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.suicide Title: Re: Hang it up! Article-I.D.: watarts.1622 Posted: Thu Jan 13 02:04:12 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 03:09:21 1983 Reply-To: geo@watarts (Geo Swan) References: houxq.243 Seriously, your article reminded me of an article I read on the net some time ago. Someone talked of a french scientist who, when he was sentenced to the guillotine, arranged to have one of his students standing by, to time how long he was able to blink, and thus to determine how long consciousness would last once your head was struck from your body. Would the original author, or any other knowledgable soul fill us in: who was the scientist? how long *did* he maintain consciousness? Geo Swan, Integrated Studies, University of Waterloo