THE SCIENTIST WHO TESTED HANGING TO KNOW THE PIAN INVOLVED
Nicolae Minovici was a Romanian scientist who, during his career, was obsessed with finding out what happens to the human body during hanging. The strangest thing about this scientist is that he carried out his experiment by hanging himself repeatedly. In his experiments, Minovici was not satisfied with just "reading" about people that had been executed by hanging. What he wanted was to know how it really feels, so he went to the extent of making himself a specimen. His first preliminary experiments were with a rope that did not contract. He hung himself 6 times a few seconds to get used to it, but here are the words he used to describe it in his notes: "The pain was almost intolerable" But he wasn't phased, and was determined to experience what it felt like to be hanged, so he leveled up. He, along with some of his collaborators put their heads in a regular contraction rope and asked an assistant to hang them, twelve times in a row. When describing previous ex...