Again, not being an amateur murderer, my understanding is the loss of blood pressure causes the victim to collapse and then bleed out.
Well, I can personally attest that I have never murdered anyone by slitting their throat.
That’s O K for you right-handers.
Dan
That leaves so many methods.
I was under the impression from extensive movie watching and reading that if the opportunity presents itself, stabbing someone in the back of the neck between the 2nd and 3rd vertebrae thus severing the spinal cord, brain stem, or both (not clear on this) was the way to go. Instant incapacitation and probably much less blood.
I watch a lot of Dateline. There are way easier and less messy ways to commit murder. Everyday household products. I won’t share which ones, just in case, ya know.
Wilkes : [points his knife at the back of the skull] At the base of his skull at the right of his spine - what the Chinese call the wind gate - you insert, scramble the brains… what you have is instant rag doll.
I don’t remember where I read it (maybe Hammett?) but I seem to recall a story where an assassin would use an ice pick that had been filed down to do exactly what you and @Sinaptics refer to. The explanation was it doesn’t leave a lot of blood at the scene and the wound is rather small and may be overlooked.
Not available in a culture at a medieval level of technology, even with the help of the gods (who apparently are very real).
I should have mentioned that bit, I suppose.
He got Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, but I don’t think any were with an ice pick.
I know Polonius was stabbed through the arras. We all know how painful that can be.
Whoosh
Looked like an icepick when they did it in Goodfellas.https://youtu.be/sGr2jv4GieM
Surely, the quickest knife death would be to just lop the whole head off?
Granted, it requires a really strong blow.
Partly because that’s not where it’s located. But mostly because the Star Trek quote includes “left ear”.
But maybe there’s still brain activity for a second or two post-lop.
How about touching a pair of low-resistance knives to each side of someone’s head to electrocute them with massive current?
whoosh
whoosh
ding ding ding ding ding
I have to correct myself. The poison did not take a couple of hours to go into effect (at least not in the book, that might have been in the original tweet). It took about 5 minutes from ingestion to death, but the victim was able to speak during some of that time.
And it was fugu. Made from the liver of blowfish.
Does your friend do “work”?
If I ask him, he’ll have to kill me.