Does the soul in the human body weigh 31 grams?

New York, August 28, 2020, Friday

The theory of soul and paramatman is centuries old. Each religion and culture has its own set of beliefs. Research published in the journal The American Society for Psychic Research in 1904 discusses the experiment with the soul after death. Surprisingly, a story in the New York Times about a doctor named Duncan weighing his soul is still remembered today.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1918, Dr. Duncan MacDonald moved to Massachusetts, USA, when he was 20 years old. After completing his studies at the University of Houston's School of Medicine, he spent much of his life treating people at a charitable hospital in the city of Haverill. He weighed the soul with a weighbridge weighing 31 grams, a Fairbanks imported from China years ago. Dunk used no speculation or conjecture for this. Dr. Duncan McDougall made a special kind of bed with a very light weight frame.

The bed was fitted with trajectories kept in the hospital. He balanced the scales in such a way that even an ounce of weight could be measured. People who were seriously ill and did not have much hope of recovery were put to bed in this special bed. The process of how patients with this serious disease die was specially observed. He used to write down any changes in body weight. During this time, changes in water, sweat, feces, and oxygen and nitrogen levels in the body were also taken into account.

Doctor Dunk claimed that when a man takes his last breath, his body loses about half an ounce. When the body becomes inactive the scale of the trajectory changes immediately. It seems that something is coming out of the body. However, Dr. Dunk performed similar experiments on 12 dogs but the results were negative. No change was seen in the weight of the dog even after death. The soul is not found in a dog at the time of death in any man. The scientific community challenged its legitimacy by refusing to believe the experiment. Yet Dr. Dunk's experiment on the dead is still remembered today.

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