Re: [LEAPSECS] timestamps on death certificates

From: Clive D.W. Feather <clive_at_DEMON.NET>
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:05:27 +0100

Markus Kuhn said:
> Humans stay perfectly concious and altert up to about
> 12-15 seconds after the last heartbeat (even after decapitation, as
> Voltaire demonstrated during the French revolution so elegantly in his
> famous very last scientific experiment),

Voltaire died of old age in 1778.

I think you're thinking of Lavoisier, though sources vary as to whether
anything was actually demonstrated.

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