Spontaneous Human Combustion
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Why Is It Important That People's Clothing Catch Fire?
If ye hold a match up to the actual wax of a candle, it may melt, but it won't catch fire. That suggests that there is some other special condition that needs to be present for human bustion to take place. I'm sure it's more than just the presence of an oxygen atmosphere, right? Cases of spontaneous human combustion do happen in oxygen atmospheres.
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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.
