A Prisoner's Last Taste of Freedom

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » 29 Jun 2006

mary can choke you as she lifts you off the floor with her tounge.

Post by **nikki678** » 08 Aug 2006

When you fight PH for the first time, he lifts you up with his hand, like he want's to strangle you, and lateron, when he fight's two PHs they stab Maria in the back...it looks like strangling and stabbing to me...kinda

Post by **Oddish** » 20 Jan 2008

Regarding hanging, whether the prisoner strangled or died instantly brom a broken neck depended on the weight of the prisoner and the competence of the executioner. Nearly every execution method (including those used today) can be inhumane if done properly: one reason for the invention of the guillotine was that it was quick and reliable: the executioner could be drunk or monumentally stupid, but as long as he could pull a lever, the machine functioned and the victim died.

Concerning Silent Hill's history, two things. First, nearly every place has parts of its history that are pretty darn nasty. Choices between hanging and skewering are nothing compared to the Roman traditions of crucifixion, scourging, and feeding people to the lions. And second, I'm no expert, but I don't think portals to hell open up in places of happiness and innocence.

Post by **King Crimson** » 06 Mar 2009

It just ocurred to me that this article relates to the in water ending.[Spoilers!] In the in water ending James has the choice to either kill himself with Aneglas knife or he can choose to end his life by asphixiation. Which isnt strangeling but it does fit in with my death by asphixiation theory. http://www.silenthillforum.com/viewtopi ... highlight=

Take from it what you will, but I just see it as morbid foreshadowing.

Post by **Oddish** » 07 Mar 2009

Hanging is not traditionally death by asphyxiation, but by functional decapitation (severing of the spinal cord). Of course, maybe the executioner at the prison was either a sadist or monumentally incompetent.

Post by **King Crimson** » 07 Mar 2009

I really didnt want to play this card.... but the memo says nothing about hanging. It clearly states daeth by strangling. This memo was placed in front of james for a reason. I beleive it was foreshadowing the in water ending.

Post by **EileenGalvin** » 07 Mar 2009

Or it was a hint about what happened to Mary. She dies from asphyxiation which is what happens when being strangled.
Or pillowed.