I’LL give me something to worry about…
As you can see from the previous post, this has not been the best week, so I thought I’d find something else to worry about to take my mind off my legitimate worries. I found this:
Perfect.
I found the section on Theories about Spontaneous Human Combustion particularly compelling despite the spelling errors. From the website:
- Alchoholism - many Spontaneous Human Combustion vicitms have been alcoholics. But experiments in the 19th century demonstrated that flesh impregnated with alcohol will not burn with the intense heat associated with Spontaneous Human Combustion.
- Deposits of flammable body fat - Many victims have been overweight - yet others have been skinny.
- Devine Intervention - Centuries ago people felt that the explosion was a sign from God of devine punishment.
- Build-up of static electricity - no known form of electrostatic discharge could cause a human to burst into flames.
- An explosive combination of chemicals can form in the digestive system - due to poor diet.
- Electrical fields that exist within the human body might be capable of ’short circuiting’ somehow, that some sort of atomic chain reaction could generate tremendous internal heat.
No satisfactory explanation of Spontaneous Human Combustion has ever been given. It is still an unsolved mystery.
I am particularly concerned about these two items:
- Deposits of flammable body fat. I have plenty of deposits of fat and no way to know which, if any, might be flammable. Uh oh.
- Explosive combinations of chemicals forming in my digestive system. Will start eating only one food at a time allowing time for proper digestion in between. Today will be chocolate day. Tomorrow will be cheese day.
Holy crap, that’s scary!
I feel so much better.
