Not to get into Biblical exegesis in BBABB, but hanging off a cross kills you by hanging you from your arms till your chest can't take it any more and you suffocate. It can take days, if you have your legs under you, braced against something. (This is how Spartacus got it, and why he could still say his lines to Peter Ustinov a day after they hung him up.) Take away the legs (break knees), or ruin the lower body muscles on the trunk (belly stabbage), and hasten the suffocation a lot.

I believe, in Biblical accounts, there was a holiday scheduled to start at sundown, and they'd only just begun the crossage at noonish, and they really needed the bodies to be done with before the holiday started, so Jesus and his crucified friends got the quickie treatment and died in about 3 hours.

You know the fun part? The doctors in the Renaissance who experimented with corpses to figure out how crucifixion worked. (Like, where the nails would go.)

Nutty, you forgot to mention how excruciatingly painful it was. That getting nails through your hands was the least of it.

so Jesus and his crucified friends got the quickie treatment and died in about 3 hours.

Right, they broke the legs of the two criminals, but they stabbed Jesus, instead.

You know the fun part? The doctors in the Renaissance who experimented with corpses to figure out how crucifixion worked. (Like, where the nails would go.)

IIRC, though, most crucifixion victims had their arms and legs tied to the cross. Nails were reserved for special cases.

I thought the nails went through the wrists, through the bones, rather than the hands becuase couldn't take the weight of the body but the wrists could.

That's the way I've heard it, too, between the radius and the ulna.

Right. Askye's point is what the experimenters had to find out, in the Renaissance. Or later? Anyway, some doctor in France hung dead arms from a nail in his door lintel until he figured out a way that would actually hang for 3 hours. The ones with nails through the hands just slithered out between the tendons and bones and the arm flopped off after a few minutes.

On-topic: any word on how the board is doing post-premiere?

We're still hanging on, Michele.

(sorry)

Just such a freakin' educational place. Everywhere else, people look at you funny for having these conversations.

Kat, you have 2728 unarchived posts. You're not in the top 20. Here's the top users table:

user_name totals ita11697 P.M. Marcontell10023 Steph L.7093 deborah grabien6055 Sean K6018 Jess PMoon5799 DavidS5733 Trudy Booth5690 Elena5588 Cindy5391 Aimée5327 Betsy HP5303 connie neil5208 DXMachina5094 erikaj4842 Perkins4201 Theodosia4028 Jesse3835 Jon B.3626 Deena3450

That's all for now -- I don't want to choke the system from the back end.