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   "john miller"  wrote in message   
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   > > I've always figured that he didn't actually die on the cross, just   
   > > fell into a coma.  He, after all, had only one serious wound- the   
   > > spear in his side.  The scourging would have inflicted ugly, but   
   > > superficial wounds (and if British sailors could survive 500 lashes,   
   > > Jesus could survive 40 or 80).  The nailing would be more serious, but   
   > > limited to extremities and not life threatening.   
   > >   
   > > Figure he goes into a coma, regains consciousness three days later,   
   > > but dies six weeks after that from the cumulative effect of his wounds   
   > > (and/or infection).  To be walking around three days after being   
   > > crucified indicates a pretty healthy uh, HT score.   
   >   
   > My only issue would be that the actual damage done from crusifiction (sp?)   
   > is not so much physical wounds as it is suffocation, based on the material   
   > that I have seen/heard at least.   
      
   Yes, though it's not actual damage. It's fatigue to the diaphragm that   
   persists until it's too weak to continue functioning in that position. You   
   can, at first, try to push up with your feet to get out of that position,   
   but you get too tired to keep doing that pretty soon.   
      
   It's not so much suffocation in the classical sense so much as it's an   
   inability to get the lungs to continue expanding/deflating.   
      
   And I have no idea how to express that in game stat terms.   
      
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