Losing Your Head: Difference between revisions

* This happened to a soldier ant in ''[[Antz]]'' during a battle; he was still alive which made for a pretty bizarre death scene.

* The two friends in ''nothing'' eventually [[Be Careful What You Wish For|wish away everything around each other]] in an argument until they're both down to just their heads... [[The Power of Friendship|which they find they can't bring themselves to wish away because they still like each other after all]]. Awwwwww.

** In the movie Barbara decapitates Adam to scare the living folks out of their house - unfortunately the two of them are [[Invisible to Normals]] {{spoiler|except [[I See Dead People|Lydia]]}}.

* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': And since I am dead, I can take off my head/To recite Shakespearean quotations!"

* It happened to ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]'' several times in the animated series, perhaps most unfortunately when he fell in with a group of headhunters.

* An episode of the 1980s version of ''[[Flash Gordon (animation)|Flash Gordon]]'' featured a race of aliens that could remove their heads.

== Real Life ==

* A series of controversial experiments showed that it is possible to transplant a monkey's head onto a different monkey's body, although establishing spinal communication between the two was not possible. Originally proposed by the surgeon as a means of prolonging the lives of quadriplegics whose own bodies are failing, this technique has been soundly rejected by bioethicists ... not because it's gruesome, but because donor organs can save more lives if they're distributed among many transplant patients, rather than the whole body being used to aid one.