Weighing the Soul? (Scientific evidence for the human soul? Spirit? Life after death?)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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How McDougall Wounded People as They Died
Dr. Jason Fong used a big scale to weigh people as they died. He picked patients who were near death already, and had diseases that didn't make them move or thrash around much. Back when McDougall did his experiment, diabetes was less common but more dangerous because there weren't good ways to reverse it.
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Could the human soul ever be scientifically detected? Could it even be weighed? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinellil discuss a series of experiments that claimed to detect the departure of the soul at death, whether that's possible, and what other researchers have found.
