From the blood loss to the beating and the shock and the dehydration. It could be any combination of these factors. According to scientists, the Royal Society of Medicine in 2006 published an article that centered on Jesus crucifixion and a timeline of nine possible causes of death. And while suffocation from the weight of one's body dangling from a cross has long believed to have been the cause of death and crucifixion, others thinks the process is more complicated and that it is a series of chain of reactions and events