Spontaneous Human Combustion
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Do You Qualify for Driving Under the Influence?
In most states, if your blood alcohol content gets up to zero point zero eight %, you'll qualify for driving under the influence. Such high levels are life threatening and cause people to die. What if someone just goes on a really big drinking bench and builds up a bunch of alcohol in their body at one time? Would that make it asier for their bodies to combust?
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Transcript
Every so often, there are reports of people bursting into flames for no apparent reason, reducing most of their body to ashes, but with little or no fire damage around them. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss what we should make of these reports of spontaneous human combustion and what could be causing them.
