Strangling

Choking Strangling or strangulation is the compression of the neck leading to an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain, which can lead to unconsciousness or even death. Fatal strangulation typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging causes death (alongside breaking the victim's neck). Quotes But see, his face is black and full of blood,His eyeballs further out than when he lived,Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), act iii, sc. 2 (Warwick) Do it not with poison; strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated. Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), act iv, sc. 1 (Iago)    I’ll not shed her blood,Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,And smooth as monumental alabaster.Yet she must die, else she’ll betray more men! Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), act v, sc. 2 (Othello)    Birth-strangled babe,Ditch-deliver’d by a drab. Shakespeare, Macbeth (1606), act iv, sc. 1 (3 Witch) External links Category:Death Category:Crime