My family has a great number of interesting conversations at the dinner table. During a recent dinner, my mom brought up a show she had watched in the last day or so on spontaneous human combustion.
I had read articles about this phenomenon in the past and had always been startled by the comically gruesome photographs of remaining limbs of people who had just incinerated from the inside-out, leaving nearby articles of clothing and household items unburned.
As if living daily life wasn't filled enough with fears about accidents and being a general klutz (such as myself). Now we have to worry if our bodies are going through a nuclear chain reaction to reach an immediate heat level of 1600 degrees Fahrenheit (the heat of cremation) to just plain explode into flames.
On the other hand, it seems that SHC could almost be a psychological phenomena, even though this is actually disputed by scientists. It would seem like a simple metaphor to go through an instantaneous combustion, almost like the culmination of thoughts and ideas. And what of physicality?
There are so many things to ponder on this topic, such as the thought of lightning striking a forest, only for it to go a-blaze and cleanse the land.
Is Spontaneous Human Combustion related to natural phenomena seen in nature? Is it a manifestation of body and mind? Is it merely a freakish scientific accident?
Will it ever be resolved?
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