Theater hanging: Doctors assessing actor for brain death, hospital says
By Pietro Lombardi, for CNN

(CNN)Doctors have started the procedures to assess brain death in Raphael Schumacher, the actor in a coma after being choked when a hanging scene he was performing went wrong.

Tests started at 2 p.m. (1 p.m. GMT), a spokesperson at Cisanello Hospital in Pisa told CNN, adding that if the actor's condition doesn't change by the end of the six-hour procedures (7 p.m. GMT), he will be declared brain dead.

Schumacher was performing in an experimental production in the courtyard of Pisa's Teatro Lux when a member of the audience noticed that the rope around his neck was so tight it was actually killing him.

Full story: http://us.cnn.com/2016/02/03/europe/italian-actor-strangled-hanging-scene/index.html


-- CNN 2016-02-05

They're checking if the safety procedures were in place? Well, they were obviously not!