• NightAuthor@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    If you look closely, that’s a lever knot, which is non-cinching. And given the fact that that the human neck can actually support about 2x your body weight hanging below (assuming not obese)… this seems like a reasonably useful safety device.

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      5 months ago

      Just because it’s non-cinching doesn’t mean it can’t restrict airflow and circulation. Not to mention the suspension trauma even if somehow there wasn’t strangulation or and internal decapitation or c1/c2 fracture or the many many other problems that come with having so important a body part on a mobile joint. I can’t imagine it being good if someone passed out in this position.

      I would file this soundly under B for Bad Idea.