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[QUOTE="jeds, post: 3415598, member: 8551"
It does sound odd. But my point was that you made it sound like it was something I had said - which it wasn't. Most people know that bodies will burn, albeit very slowly. So-called spontaneous combustion is really just a body catching fire and slow burning over a long period. In that situation almost everything disintegrates - including the bones. The only thing that usually remains are the feet because they contain less fat. But as far as I know that type of combustion requires some form a wick - usually the clothing - to work. But it does show that joe's idea that bodies don't burn because they are mostly water is nonsense.[/QUOTE]
Nope. Sorry. Bodies DON'T burn. A proportion of the constituent parts of a body will burn - but that isn't a body. A body is a dead person intact.
Spontaneous human combustion only happens when someone dies in front of the fire and the water is evaporated over several days. What is left is combustible - but that isn't a body as we know it. Are you saying that all Jewish bodies were dried out for several days? Don't be so bloody silly, man.
It does sound odd. But my point was that you made it sound like it was something I had said - which it wasn't. Most people know that bodies will burn, albeit very slowly. So-called spontaneous combustion is really just a body catching fire and slow burning over a long period. In that situation almost everything disintegrates - including the bones. The only thing that usually remains are the feet because they contain less fat. But as far as I know that type of combustion requires some form a wick - usually the clothing - to work. But it does show that joe's idea that bodies don't burn because they are mostly water is nonsense.[/QUOTE]
Nope. Sorry. Bodies DON'T burn. A proportion of the constituent parts of a body will burn - but that isn't a body. A body is a dead person intact.
Spontaneous human combustion only happens when someone dies in front of the fire and the water is evaporated over several days. What is left is combustible - but that isn't a body as we know it. Are you saying that all Jewish bodies were dried out for several days? Don't be so bloody silly, man.
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