– How does crucifixion cause suffocation?
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Crucifixion initially suspends the person by their wrists and ankles. Eventually the legs will give up strength though, and you’re left hanging by your wrists with your arms stretched out at an angle. Eventually your arms give out too and now you’re hanging from your arms with the whole weight of your body pulling down on your chest. Inhaling means expanding your chest, but all your weight is trying to collapse it. It takes more and more diaphragm power to breath and it hurts more and more to do so. Eventually you run out of diaphram strength and suffocate.
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