On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 14:38 -0400, Jed Rothwell wrote: > See: > > > http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/09/23/spontaneous_human_combustion_was_michael_faherty_cause_of_death_.html
I've seen this type of death debunked. The same effects seen -- where the body is the only thing burnt, the body is burnt as if from high intensity heat, the surrounding room is relatively cool -- can be caused by wicking, where the person's clothes act as a wick to burning fat within the body. The fire is relatively cool, but lasts over 8 hours, which causes the fire to burn the whole body and seem as if it were high intensity. Craig
