johnnytailback

A few things worth mentioning.

A death erection (sometimes referred to as "angel lust") is a post-mortem erection which occurs when a male individual dies vertically or face-down the cadaver remaining in this position. During life, the pumping of blood by the heart ensures a relatively even distribution around the blood vessels of the human body. Once this mechanism has ended, only the force of gravity acts upon the blood. As with any mass, the blood settles at the lowest point of the body and causes edema or swelling to occur; the discoloration caused by this is called lividity.

If an individual dies vertically (as in a hanging) the blood will settle in the legs and pool at the feet. The pressure will be greatest as the weight of the blood pushes down. This causes the blood vessels and tissues in the feet to engorge to their greatest elastic capacity and hold the greatest volume of blood possible. This effect occurs right up the legs although to a lesser extent than the feet and is also notable at the waist.

The blood which remains in the torso attempts to move to a lower position due to gravity, and as the blood in the waist (which cannot move down due to the legs being full) causes the penis, consisting of erectile tissue, to fill with blood and expand. This is the death erection. As long as the body remains in this position the effect will continue.

Seen in ...

In Act 1 of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot the two attendants discuss hanging themselves and refer to the death erection.
<i>Estragon: What about hanging ourselves?
Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection.
Estragon: (highly excited) An erection! </i>

-Kevin Smith's first film Clerks. features a scene which describes a death erection, although this is the result of someone dying with an erection.

- Six Feet Under Season One, Episode 2, The Will, features a cadaver with "angel lust".

when I die I want to be hung afterwards long enough right up till the funeral so it seems as if the precedings of the priest going on bitterly and angrily about chirtian love have caused my libido to wane even in death.

Also, I miss the days when we used to hang people.

Remember that? That was much cheaper than electrocution and injection buggery of the here and now. Sometimes you fuck up and people actually break their necks and don't die but it's not like they don't botch electrocutions too. Besides it's easier to convince someone to remove someone whose been hanged that it is to pay someone to remove the dodgy cadaver that's smoking and reeks of cuttlefish from the eletric chair.

Plus with modern technology you can probably do a weight/noose calculation so all can go smoothly.

I read up on it and this guy in england figured that out, but we can still refine it, like all things. Maybe use computers to previsualize the whole thing. Save us some money, that's all I'm saying. Not that anyone needs to die now, but for future reference. That's all I'm getting at.

Now, this had me confused for a while now, but I just sort of accepted it because, I don't know, I'm a mindless drone but how is Judaism a race?

I mean the whole defenition of race is already murky. So let's say it's its own ethnicity, but there are many kinds of Jews from many different ethnicities.

Enlighten me