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Some voices may come from voice actors, but the words are accurate to the interview described. Long black Highway. Take me on. When you not only cut off their airways, you violate every cell in their body. Not in some fancy poetic sense, but as a biological

fact, every cell in the human body needs oxygen to survive and when you take it away you

spread death throughout every part of them in which oxygen used to flow.

The science of all of this is pretty straightforward.

The cararded arteries that carry blood into their head continue to operate.

The jugular veins that carry blood out of their head shuts down. Blood keeps pumping in, but it can't get out.

The jugular's leaving the head, there are four of them, are smaller and thinner and

far easier to clamp down.

They are most prominent below the neck

and you can see them in the mirror above your clavicle

heading down to the heart.

Your carotides, that enter your head from your heart are deep in your neck behind your windpipe.

If you take your pointer finger and your thumb and

place them on opposite sides of the top of your windpipe, you can feel your

carotodes thumping on your fingers with the pulse of your heart.

These arteries are thick and muscular and their

depth makes them very difficult to stop. So when you're strangling someone,

the crotides keep pumping blood up through their neck to their

brain that desperately needs it, which is great, but this blood has nowhere to go.

The exits have blocked the jugular, more vulnerable to the pressure of external clamping,

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