[mtbopfuyn]

Many years ago I read that a doctor had tried to determine if the soul had substance. Supposedly, he put some kind of a scale on the hospital bed of a woman who was near death. At the moment the woman died, the bed's weight decreased by 4 oz. (iirc). He claimed to have done the same experiments with animals and they had souls too. Don't know if there is some medical explaination like a relased of air or what could make the weight decrease. Just thought it was interesting.

[backhoe]

Many years ago I read that a doctor had tried to determine if the soul had substance. Supposedly, he put some kind of a scale on the hospital bed of a woman who was near death.

Yep- I still have the copy of "Forgotten Mysteries," the book that had the story about that. Eerie little book...

[Semi Civil Servant]

"Many years ago I read that a doctor had tried to determine if the soul had substance. Supposedly, he put some kind of a scale on the hospital bed of a woman who was near death. At the moment the woman died, the bed's weight decreased by 4 oz. (iirc)."

By placing the beds of dying patients on scales and noting their weights immediately before and after death, Swedish physician Nils-Olof Jacobson concluded that the human soul weighs 21 grams.

-- http://campus.murraystate.edu/academic/faculty/winfield.rose/wub.htm