Jaja this sounds so middle age.. where people belive in witchs and those paranormal things. jaja they even thought that over weight people had more changes to explote than skinny ones ..jaja.
i dont think combustion explotion exist cuz we just dont have the coditions to make it happens, the body’s water content and no known physical trigger for combustion.

Omnidevil

wrong, your fart is explosive gas
it contains Methane gas.

yeah.. but once i tried a little experiment while the professor wasnt looking around.. and i was alone with some friends with the death body.. we oppened the large intestine.. and throw really fast a match to see what happens.. and nothing .. it didnt explote :P.. yeah my experiment wasnt scientifical at all... but as we have methane, i just wanted to try whats going to happen

pretty

yeah.. but once i tried a little experiment while the professor wasnt looking around.. and i was alone with some friends with the death body.. we oppened the large intestine.. and throw really fast a match to see what happens.. and nothing .. it didnt explote :P.. yeah my experiment wasnt scientifical at all... but as we have methane, i just wanted to try whats going to happen

Perhaps you can try to encase the said corpse in an air tight container, maybe a sealed cabinet, eventually you can try to set a fire to it, and a spark should be enough to set it off once the deposit of the gasses get thick enough.

mikageryuji

makes sense. though confining any type of fuel in high pressure areas make them explode in some ways. and the human body is very ideal since our inards are compressed in water. though that may seem contradicting because about 80+% of the body is water.

Since 80%+ of the body is water, it gives even more of a reason for combustion. Since water is essentially made up of hydrogen and oxygen which are both flammable gases and given that combustion has already started, it could fuel fire also. They say you shouldn't throw a bucket of water into a fire because it may cause the flames to rise higher and instead cover with a blanket or throw sand over it. I'm just basing my theory from that, but combined with everything else other people have said, it makes it comprehensible for human combustion to occur.

@pretty - if the animal is already dead, you wouldn't get methane because that is only produced in the process of digestion as a waste substance. Since the organism is dead, digestion can't take place, hence no methane.

EDIT: whoah! something funny with the site just now, it's going a bit slow which lead to the accidental triple post sorry.

Ah deleted now! XD

An-kun

Since water is essentially made up of hydrogen and oxygen which are both flammable gases and given that combustion has already started, it could fuel fire also. They say you shouldn't throw a bucket of water into a fire because it may cause the flames to rise higher...

Actually, throwing a bucket of water on an oil or chemical fire is a bad idea because you'll spread the flames all over the place. You won't actually be feeding the fire. Water takes an enormous amount of energy to evaporate. To seperate it into hydrogen and oxigen will take even more. I seriously doubt it can be acheived inside a human body unless you pass a large current trhough the person in question.. in which case the cause of death would be electrocution ^_^

... my spelling is real bad today ... ahhh ... lazyness ^_^

Noone saw the south park episode on internal combustion??

i think it`s really well explained in there

mikageryuji

, most people who "exploded or bursted into flames on their own" are usually the fat people. ..

give me good reason to shed a couple pounds now hahah

~Natsumi Lam~

An-kun

mikageryuji

makes sense. though confining any type of fuel in high pressure areas make them explode in some ways. and the human body is very ideal since our inards are compressed in water. though that may seem contradicting because about 80+% of the body is water.

Since 80%+ of the body is water, it gives even more of a reason for combustion. Since water is essentially made up of hydrogen and oxygen which are both flammable gases and given that combustion has already started, it could fuel fire also. They say you shouldn't throw a bucket of water into a fire because it may cause the flames to rise higher and instead cover with a blanket or throw sand over it. I'm just basing my theory from that, but combined with everything else other people have said, it makes it comprehensible for human combustion to occur.
@pretty - if the animal is already dead, you wouldn't get methane because that is only produced in the process of digestion as a waste substance. Since the organism is dead, digestion can't take place, hence no methane.

actually he was a human.. jaja and i was just playing with it xD.
and i still belive we cant explote from the nowhere... our body dont have the neccesary codition.. the high pressure that guy is taking about its only in our veins that doesnt make anything .. and have you ever being in a real fire?.. throwing water into flames its ok.. but it deppends in what started the fire.. if it its organic, its really a good idea, and also a CO2 works but anyway water is not flammable
and how many times have you ever seing a person that burn from the nowhere?.. just think about it..

NatsumiLam

mikageryuji

, most people who "exploded or bursted into flames on their own" are usually the fat people. ..

give me good reason to shed a couple pounds now hahah

~Natsumi Lam~

i'm speaking from observation, not statistics =) i just said that because that's the first thing that i see flamable in the human body (regardless of its state being solid).

other factors that affect SHC apart from fats and oils are methane gas confined in a sealed, pressured container (stomach and intestines) produced during digestion, oxygen, an agent to start the iginition like static electricity or a spark and something used to burn or char (the human body istelf in this case)... did i miss something?

Do you know that half of your intestines are full of such gases? The possibility of these gasses blowing up very minute, but it does not shove out the possibility, what is not however, is how far has it been proven. At times, I think it was logical to assume that you can blow up from over compressing these gasses. Example as in surpressing your fart or have a unique body condition that circumvents the passing of natural gasses stored within.

someone ban this idiot wARRIRS for posting crap please.

I used to read alot about teh whole phenomenon ... the weird things about it was that the human body wasn't entirely consumed by the flames and only a small area was burned. The "shc" I've read about had nothing really to do with exploding people. I don't think its happened recently either ... this site ( http://www.crystalinks.com/shc.html ) has some things related to it and brings up possibilities.

Well (correct me if i'm wrong), combustion doesn't exactly mean "explosion" but "burning"... so it does not necessarily follow that SHC enatils a person or a human body exploding. it just gets incinerated for unknown reasons...

As for the burning of someone... exploding or burning ... you need a pretty good amount of energy to do it. I don't think the body can produce that much energy and concentrate it locally in some area to actually burn something. A chemical burn may be more plausible though...

What really sucks is that most web sites dealing with the issue aren't very reputable. So it's hard to know if the facts your reading are real or not.

True. and the reputable ones only present the definition... =(

There's no way that anyone, by any reason could combust from inside. The only explosive substance that humans expell is CO2 through breathing, but not enough to explode. It's simply not possible. Animals don't explode either, neither anithing that is alive.

And also, you need a spark to trigger the combustion. I dare you to try and do it. Of course you can make a spark with a foreign agent (a door knob, or anithing metal made) by static energy, but nothing that comes from inside of you.