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  2. 21 grams experiment - Wikipedia

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    MacDougall hypothesized that souls have physical weight, and attempted to measure the mass lost by a human when the soul departed the body. MacDougall attempted to measure the mass change of six patients at the moment of death. One of the six subjects lost three-quarters of an ounce (21.3 grams).

  3. Near-death experience - Wikipedia

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    The NDE would represent evidence of the immaterial existence of a soul or mind, which leaves the body upon death, and provides information about an immaterial world where the soul journeys after death. [49] According to Greyson, [11] some NDE phenomena cannot be easily explained with our current knowledge of human physiology and psychology. For ...

  4. Dead of Night - Wikipedia

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    Dead of Night is a 1945 British supernatural horror anthology film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns , Googie Withers , Sally Ann Howes , and Michael Redgrave .

  5. LSD - Wikipedia

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    LSD is not considered addictive. These effects typically begin within 20–30 minutes of oral ingestion, peak three to four hours after ingestion, and can last up to 20 hours, particularly with higher doses. An "afterglow" effect, characterized by an improved mood or perceived mental state, may persist for days or weeks following ingestion. [44]

  6. Stages of human death - Wikipedia

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    Technique: Body cooling (measure body cooling to estimate time since death) Pigs: stages of body cooling after death. In pigs, the decrease in body temperature occurs in the eyeball, orbit soft tissue, rectum, and muscle tissue. [29] Up to 13 hours after death, eyeball cooling in pigs provides a reasonable estimate of time since death. [30]

  7. Epiphenomenalism - Wikipedia

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    Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem.It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for their existence on corresponding physical and biochemical events within the human body, but do not themselves influence physical events.

  8. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    This is a sequence of deep-freezing, pulverisation by vibration, freeze-drying, removing metals, and burying the resulting powder, which has 30% of the body mass. Alternatively, a green burial is not a new process, but a very old one involving burying the unpreserved remains in a wood coffin or casket, which will naturally decompose, and thus ...

  9. Thanatology - Wikipedia

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    Autopsy (1890) by Enrique Simonet. Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the postmortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death.