Decapitation 斩首
（重定向自Decollation）
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![Beheadings in a painting from Froissart's Chronicles, beginning of the 15th century](/Images/godic/202501/08/Froissart_Chronicles,_execution3942.jpg")
![Depiction of an Ethiopian Emperor executing a number of people, 18th century](/Images/godic/202501/08/Traditional_Ethiopian_picture3942.jpg")
![Beheading — facsimile of a miniature on wood in the Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster (1488–1552), Basel, Switzerland, 1552](/Images/godic/202501/08/Beheading_Fac_simile_of_a_Miniature_on_Wood_in_the_Cosmographie_Universelle_of_Munster_in_folio_Basle_15523942.png")
Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head) is the complete separation of the head from the body. In humans, decapitation always results in death, since severing the head deprives all other organs of the involuntary functions that are essential for the body to function while the brain itself is deprived of oxygenated blood.