Are there any documented cases of people surviving after 4 hours of full suspension hanging?

[doughmixer1982]

I was wondering if there are any documented cases when someone is left undisturbed for 4-6 hours of full suspension hanging and someone was still able to save them?

 

[Tautochrome]

No, that would be very unlikely. I heard of a 35 yo man who survived (partial) hanging for 15 minutes as well as a woman who hanged for 30 and made a full recovery. I can look for the links if you're interested, but these aren't the impressive numbers you were looking for. After so many hours death is pretty much guaranteed.

 

[Worndown]

If they lived that long, they screwed it up so bad it was no longer full suspension hanging. It was just suspension, like an acrobatic troupe.

 

[doughmixer1982]

No, that would be very unlikely. I heard of a 35 yo man who survived (partial) hanging for 15 minutes as well as a woman who hanged for 30 and made a full recovery. I can look for the links if you're interested, but these aren't the impressive numbers you were looking for. After so many hours death is pretty much guaranteed.

Please look for them. Thanks.

 

[Tautochrome]

Please look for them. Thanks.

https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19190198/

(huh, older than I thought)

https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22333907/

 

[JesiBel]

https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19190198/

(huh, older than I thought)

https://sci-hub.se/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22333907/

The person was rescued and found ahead of time. He was not hanging with the ligature around his neck for four hours. Be serious.

Article:

A 35-year-old man, with previous suicide ideation was found hanging, by a ligature tightened to a tree. The ligature was cut off and within 15 minutes of the incident, he was brought to a tertiary care hospital.

On the day of the incident, the wife of the victim frequently monitored his status, checking on him, as he had expressed suicidal ideation. According to her, the incident took place in between 2 consecutive checks. She claimed that the time duration of hanging was not more than 10 minutes. Further information revealed that it was a partial hanging, the toes slightly touching
the ground.

The 1650 archive is more useful for entertaining yourself with something absurd than for taking it as a serious source of information...

Article:

Directly, around 9:00 William Petty, Tomlins reader in anatomy and Thomas Willis came into the 'cold room and season of the yeare. They perceiving some life in her. She was held up, 'they wrenched open her teeth, which were fast set', and poured hot and cordial spirits into her mouth causing her 'obscurely to cough'. They opened her stiffened bent fingers and ordered bystanders to rub and chafe her limbs for about a quarter of an hour, in the meantime administering cordial waters and 'tickling her throat with a feather, at which she opened her eyes' briefly.

 

[Tautochrome]

The person was rescued and found ahead of time. He was not hanging with the ligature around his neck for four hours. Be serious.

Article:

A 35-year-old man, with previous suicide ideation was found hanging, by a ligature tightened to a tree. The ligature was cut off and within 15 minutes of the incident, he was brought to a tertiary care hospital.

On the day of the incident, the wife of the victim frequently monitored his status, checking on him, as he had expressed suicidal ideation. According to her, the incident took place in between 2 consecutive checks. She claimed that the time duration of hanging was not more than 10 minutes. Further information revealed that it was a partial hanging, the toes slightly touching
the ground.

The 1650 archive is more useful for entertaining yourself with something absurd than for taking it as a serious source of information...

Article:

Directly, around 9:00 William Petty, Tomlins reader in anatomy and Thomas Willis came into the 'cold room and season of the yeare. They perceiving some life in her. She was held up, 'they wrenched open her teeth, which were fast set', and poured hot and cordial spirits into her mouth causing her 'obscurely to cough'. They opened her stiffened bent fingers and ordered bystanders to rub and chafe her limbs for about a quarter of an hour, in the meantime administering cordial waters and 'tickling her throat with a feather, at which she opened her eyes' briefly.

Yeah, of course, it's impossible to survive four hours of hanging, I never implied otherwise. I mentioned cases I vaguely remembered as pertaining to survivors of long near-hanging. It wasn't what OP was looking for, but they asked for links anyway. The 1650 "miracle" was cited in another article which made it sound like something recent and legit heh