Donmai

"Beheading" alias for Decapitation

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I'm not sure about this one because decapitation doesn't refer to the act of severing ones head from their body, but the state of a severed head being present together with its body. I'm not going to look through guro posts to confirm but I would suspect it's possible for the act of beheading to take place without qualifying for decapitation, but instead one of the other "head without a body/body without a head" tags.

It would probably be better as it's own tag? Or aliased to whatever tag we're using for the act of separating a head from its body.

We don't currently make a distinction between the act of beheading and the result.

"A beheaded corpse" and "a character slashing someone's neck and beheading them" are distinct enough concepts that they would deserve their own tags imo. Think of it like the difference between murder and corpse.

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