This man has been decapitated, no further info. Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is inevitably fatal to humans and most other animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood, while all other organs are deprived of the involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function. Dismemberment of a corpse has always been viewed by society to be a more hideous crime than the homicide itself. The perpetrators of criminal corpse dismemberment act mostly with the aim of facilitating body removal, covering up the traces of the crime, and hindering identification (defensive mutilation). More rarely, they are motivated by other factors: aggression against the victim, expressed after the individual’s death (aggressive mutilation); dismemberment that accompanies lust murders or necrosadistic murders (offensive mutilation); as well as winning a trophy or a fetish (necromaniac mutilation). In defensive mutilations, the perpetrator divides the body of the victim into pieces that allow for transporting the corpse and concealing it where it will not be noticed. In the majority of cases, the head and extremities are cut off the trunk, or the body is cut in halves across the trunk.
Fig.1 Decapitated man.
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