Dr. Kevorkian - dead at 83

[NeonSamurai]

Originally Posted by Betonov

Grimm fact of the day: did you know the Roman army surgeons had with them a pick and hammer and after a battle they went around the battlefield looking for wounded, and if they found someone stil lalive but knowing he wont make it, they took that pick and hammer and they would nail it trough his skull just above the neck, effectivly eutanising the soldier and spare him a painfull dying

My understanding was they used a hammer blow to the base of the skull. Same method was used in the arenas on gladiators. A pick doesn't make much sense as it would tend to get stuck in there from suction.