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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Evidence for the soul?!? - (nf)
Message-ID: <570@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Jan-84 15:25:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 12 15:25:47 1984
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uiucuxc!tynor:
	> I know this sounds silly, but a friend insists that she read
	> "somewhere" that "reliable" experiments have been done to show
	> that the body unaccountably loses weight when it dies.  She
	> seemed to think that this might be evidence for the existance
	> of the 'soul'. 

*IF* there is indeed a loss in weight after death, it'd more likely be due
to a loss of body moisture than because of any "soul".
-- 
Saumya Debray
Dept. of Computer Science
SUNY at Stony Brook

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