How can jesus die?

Question

Jesus died when he's crucified. To be practical there is no chance for people to die during crucification. What might be the reason behind it?

Answer 1

positional asphyxia?

Answer 2

The idea of Crucifixion involved a mixture of bleeding to death and  starvation. Nails were driven into the wrists, this could cause you to slowly bleed to death, however the idea was to torture the victim, the idea was for the victim to starve they were put up on the cross to be made an example of. However another trick was to remove the foot nails and break the legs causing the weight of the person to break their own neck.

Answer 3

Many others crucified died as well. They place the nails through areas such as the wrists. But since he was special, he also got stabbed in the heart.

Answer 4

Jesus, (God's son),  gave up His life, and although the beatings and sufferings of the cross were extreme, in the words that He spoke it is evident that He gave His life as a sacrifice for our sin.  That also coincides with what was written about Him before His birth, and what He said on various occasions, (He had power to lay down His life and to take it up again), thus He concluded, "it is finished".

This is further confirmed by eyewitnesses who wrote about the same subject in the New Testament books of the Bible.

Answer 5

Don't forget he was beaten badly before the Crucifixion.  During the crucifying, nails are not driven into the palms and feet as commonly thought, they are driven into the wrists, between the radius and ulna, this affixed people to the cross better and were less likely for their bodies to fall down from decay in the coming weeks.

Jesus, as well as all crucified, experienced a large loss of blood when major arteries and veins of the wrist and ankles were severed.  The loss of blood leads to chilling of the body and can quickly send a person into shock.  Don't forget that the Roman soldier, Longinus also stabbed Jesus in the side with his spear (this is thought to be after Jesus died, but might have happened while he was in shock).

Muscles, including the heart, need blood to perform.  Without enough blood, the heart suffocates and instead of beating in synchronized rhythm, quivers in atrial fibrillation, which are unproductive spasms that do not push blood to the rest of the body.  The lack of blood to the brain eventually leads to brain death and respiratory failure.

This is one possible way Jesus might have physically died.

Answer 6

You seem to think that crucified (I mean real ones, not those staged Easter side-shows in the Philippines)  people do not die. They do die, some more quickly than others. Jesus died quite quickly because, as we are told in the gospels, he was badly beaten, in addition to being whipped, before he was crucified. So badly that he was unable to carry his own cross - something which presumably many could do if they had not been so weakened.

Also, Jesus accepted his death when it came. He knew He was dying for a purpose - for the sins of the world and to conquer death. From the records, his quick death was not remarkable in that the soldiers must have seen quick deaths before and did not seem too surprise, but only wanted to carry out the 'standard' test, which was to pierce the dead man's side. Having satisfied themselves, they did not prevent the removal of the body.

Undoubtedly, there must have been some that died a slow lingering death on their crosses. A very fit enemy soldier could conceivably last for days, especially if they were very defiant and resisted to the end.

Answer 7

"To be practical there is no chance for people to die during crucification." - Sorry, but that is completely wrong.  

People, including Jesus, died by being crucified.  It was slow torture ending in death.  The Romans did it to thousands of people - except Roman citizens who were exempt from crucifixion.  Moreover, the 'practice' was done not just by the Romans.

Try this for starters:

http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/4-16-20...

"The chain of events that ultimately led to suffocation is as follows: With the weight of the body being supported by the sedulum, the arms were pulled upward. This caused the intercostal and pectoral muscles to be stretched. Furthermore, movement of these muscles was opposed by the weight of the body. With the muscles of respiration thus stretched, the respiratory bellows became relatively fixed. As pain in the wrists and arms increased, the victim was forced to raise the body off the sedulum, therefore transferring the weight of the body to the feet. Respirations became easier, but with the weight of the body being exerted on the feet, pain in the feet and legs mounted. When the pain became unbearable, the victim again slumped down on the sedulum with the weight of the body pulling on the wrists and again stretching the intercostal muscles. Thus, the victim alternated between lifting his body off the sedulum in order to breathe, and slumping down on the sedulum to relieve pain in the feet. Eventually, he became exhausted or lapsed into unconsciousness so that he could no longer lift his body off the sedulum. In this position, with the respiratory muscles essentially paralyzed, the victim suffocated and died." (DeP DePasquale, N.P. And Burch, G.E. "Death by Crucifixion"asquale and Burch).