Way off topic:

Something I have never heard discussed is what happens in the first moment or two (or three?) after a person is beheaded. I would imagine there is no pain because the path is broken but would the person still be able to think for that moment? Would the person be aware that s/he is near as dead as can be?

I remember accounts such as one woman whose eyes "looked accusingly" at her accuser. Is that possible, do you think?