21 grams

[saphirestar]

can any one find research on how much the soul weighs... besides the research done by MacDougall, Duncan?

[Sylday]

You're joking, I hope. The only way you could prove that the soul - if there was such a thing - weighed 21 grammes would be to weigh someone very accurately; then kill them in such a way that there was no loss of weight (eg no bleeding) and no addition (eg no bullet); and then immediately weigh the corpse very accurately again. Is this what Macdougall Duncan did (who he?) did?

[strait2003]

there was something about it in a book called "Stiffs" I believe..its about people that donate their bodies to science and that sort of thing...I know there was something about it in there, but cant remember the exact details...I believe it also had "the experience of human cadavers" in the title as well.

[Sir_Spikey]

Actually Sylday, the research was apparently done in a collection of Hospice worldwide. the weight of the bed was the deciding factor (this any matter expelled as blood or excrement would not effect the research. While the beds have been accepted by the scientific community as reliable they still dispute the findings. Basically the research claims that at the point of death, all subjects instantlu l;ost 21 grams, whether they were a 50 stone whale or a skinny 7 stone weakling. Of course there is a lot more to it than that and I'm not going to comment on its veracity. those are simply the answers to your question.