# Beheading or getting beat to death? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 13, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944 "2004-05-13T13:11:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/1 "2004-05-13T13:11:49Z")
Which is worse? ---
**Author:** ![Rune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e68b1a/32.png) [@Rune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rune)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/2 "2004-05-13T13:14:31Z")
> [@Machetero](#): > > Which is worse? Well I dunno. Personally I’d prefer being chased over the side of a cliff by a bunch of naked, bouncing women. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/3 "2004-05-13T13:51:45Z")
Finding that _Demolition Man_ is running on Spike TV _again_. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/4 "2004-05-13T13:57:03Z")
Channelling Frank Drebin I’d rather have my balls bit off by a Laplander. Now that’s a way to go. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/5 "2004-05-13T13:58:48Z")
If I may play Obvious Ollie for a moment: Beheading by guillotine or a clean sword swipe? Better. Relieved of head by slow sawing motion with a handheld knife? Umm… ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/6 "2004-05-13T14:28:58Z")
Beheading or beat to death? Well since you didn’t actually say I’d die after my beheading ------- I’d choose beheading. Always play the odds – ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/7 "2004-05-13T15:16:32Z")
I’d rather get my head sawed off than to get beaten to death over a three day period and left to die in my own feces if that’s what the OP is getting at. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/8 "2004-05-13T15:24:37Z")
The beheading was not a nice sight to see… doubt me ? Use your Kazzaa… Still beats bleeding to death after a beating. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/9 "2004-05-13T17:55:41Z")
Both are worse than anything that should ever happen to a human being. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/10 "2004-05-13T19:40:52Z")
After seeing the video I can’t believe how resigned to his fate the guy seemed to be, it looked as though he didn’t really struggle…I would have to go kicking and screaming to my death. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beheading-or-getting-beat-to-death/244944/11 "2004-05-14T08:13:09Z")
Is it just me, or is GD getting unneccessarily morbid these days?