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According to legend when the famous pirate black beard was defeated, he was shot several times and struck with swords many times, then his head was cut off and his body thrown into the sea. And his body continued to swim a few laps around the ship before it finally sank into the depths.

Weal, believe it or not, this is actually scientifically possible. No I am not joking.

I forgot what its called but this display of will to live even after the death of the brain has been observed in animals. With rats, smash their skull with a hammer so their brain blood and bone is leaking onto the floor, then pick them up by the tail, and in last efforts, they will try to claw you with their hind legs to get you to let them go and attempt to move despite the fact that they are dead. They are dead yet still in a primal state of trying to live. In chickens, you ever hear the phrase running around like a chicken with their head cut off? This is true, butchers have observed that after a chickens head has been cut off they continue to try to run away from the predator that is preparing to eat them. This behavior is most displayable in the insect world, cut off the head of a cockroach for example, and they will freaking stay alive for a few more weeks, even though they are dead. And wasps continue to twitch their stingers hours after being killed. So no it is not impossible for a human being to display the same thing. Black beard was so hipped up on adrenalin and testnostrom that their would be so many pulses from his brain in his nervatory system already that theirs enough life force to last in death. Somewhere in between being hit with bullets and swords, heck probably the first shot to the chest he received, he was dead. But with all the pulses in his body allowed him to keep going, so he continued trying to fight and kill his enemies. And when his head was cut off and he was thrown into the sea, the f$#@er was still going for it, like a twitching hind leg rat, he was trying to climb back into the boat and keep fighting. But once it warn off and his body caught up with the latest news, "this just in, we are dead." that's when he finally sank. Your probably (idk probably) thinking, "But wait, theirs no historical records of humans doing this". Uh, actually yes, yes their is. The Viking berserkers for example. So do I believe this legend? Actually yes, yes I do. I kid you not, yes I do.