HANGING | SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
The Death: When freshly paroled geezer Brooks Hatlen realizes just how lonely and strange life is on the outside, he hangs himself from a wooden beam in his room at the halfway house.
Dr. Yaun Says: “Hanging traditionally breaks a ligament that blocks the top vertebra from compressing the upper part of the spinal cord. Severing the spinal cord about halfway up the neck stops the nerve that goes to your diaphragm, called the phrenic nerve. If the diaphragm stops moving, you’ll be dead in about three minutes.”
We Say: He at least should have been masturbating as he did it.
