Most readers of the Book of Mormon only like to remember the glorious aspects of war in the Book of Mormon. The lives they had chosen had filled them, not with desire for peace and abundant, thriving life, but with hatred and self-destruction. The relentless law of the harvest rolled upon them, and they lived out their remaining days like specters in a terrifying nightmare of anger – sickness, howling, stench, and blood. perishability of their lives and works, held onto nothing but their swords no security offered itself. Moroni may have wanted to emphasize the brutality and hopelessness of this war. He could have left out such an uncomfortable detail, but both Ether and Moroni chose to include it. 7 Moroni chose a brutal decapitation as one of the major events to end the book of Ether with. In addition, this uncomfortably gruesome detail, described as the “most graphic passage in scripture” reminds the reader of the brutality of war.
This grisly event is uncomfortably true to life, showing yet another example of the benefits of patient investigation over shallow reading. Yet the details turn out to be scientifically sound. In the past, some have considered this story to be utterly unbelievable. was due to an unconquerable spirit, an unwillingness to die.” 6 Even in death, Shiz’s bloodlust knew no bounds. Perhaps Ether and Moroni had concluded that Shiz’s last-minute ‘pushup,’. Even though Moroni would have been familiar with war and the head-injuries that go with it, he still “singled out this extraordinary occurrence to include in his abridgement. Hadfield noted that “the event obviously astonished both Ether and Moroni, who chronicled it.” This is likely why they both would have felt compelled to include it. This also explains why Shiz would, “struggle for breath.” Hadfield stated that this botched decapitation “would also cause his rib cage to expand and contract automatically, as it does in all of us when we are sleeping.” 4 This would have made it sound like Shiz was “struggling for breath.” This type of neural phenomenon was first reported in 1898, many years after the publication of the Book of Mormon. is disconnected from the brain.” 3 Certain muscles in the arms and legs contract, and this could have caused Shiz to raise up on his hands. Hadfield explained, “Shiz’s death struggle illustrates the classic reflex. He must have cut off Shiz’s head through the base of the skull, at the level of the midbrain.” 2 If this was the case, then Shiz’s strange death scene makes sense.
His stroke evidently strayed a little too high. He stated that “Coriantumr was obviously too exhausted to do a clean job. Gary Hadfeld, a professor of neuropathology, discovered a possible medical explanation for Shiz’s actions. However, this strange event is supported by medical research.ĭr.
A man struggling for breath without a head is hard to imagine (and most people would not want to). Shiz raised up on his hands and fell and after that he had struggled for breath, he died” ( Ether 15:31). 1 But “after he had smitten off the head of Shiz. During the final Jaredite battle, the great king Coriantumr cut off the head of his opponent, Shiz.
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