How much does a human soul weigh at the time of death,and where does it go.?

Answer 1

According to a study in 1907, in Massachusetts, a doctor weighed the bodies of patients at the time of death. He reported a loss of 3/4 of an ounce... roughly 23 grams. A popular movie entitled 21 grams was based (I believe) on this study.

This man stated that his scales were accurate to within .2 oz.

I looked for a while, but I was unable to find any further studies that confirmed this expirement. (He measured a total of about 6 individuals, and some dogs that he killed for this expirement that showed no loss of weight.)

Thinking about this, it would seem that 23 grams of matter exiting the body as energy would be a SUBSTANTIAL event as that much energy (E=MC^2) is huge!

Anyway, I'm just an engineer... not a doctor or a physicist.

I'm not an atheist either, but I don't believe that the soul has actual mass as such. I don't think it's a 23 gram object that is inserted into a body which exits as the body expires.

Answer 2

The Ancient Egyptians believed the soul to be contained in the heart.
Every deceased person, would immediately be taken by the God Horus and presented before the Goddess Ma'at,who personified cosmic harmony, equilibrium and ideal human behavior.
Over time this mortuary role evolved into the "Principle of Ma'at",
it was considered to be the right attitude to avoid disharmony and chaos also to prove righteousness.
This belief remained the ethical and moral foundation of the Egyptians.
Even after Christianity became accepted, and the ancient Gods left to dwell in the past.
They referred to this as process as, "Judgment By The Law of Ma'at",which means the law of balance.
The heart was thought to contain the soul.It would be weighed on a balance scale, against the weight of a feather.
There is no reference as to the type of bird's feather that was used in this judgment by the Goddess.The ritual was witnessed by two Gods,Thoth and Horus also 42 "others" plus the Devourer.
According to my digital scales,a crows feather weighs only just 0.1 of a gram.
That is a long way short of the 21gs.referred to by the studies.
If your soul weighed more than the feather, and unbalanced the scale. It was immediately be thrown to the eagerly waiting beast called Amemait.
This judgment and its outcome, decided whether the deceased would gain quick passage to live eternally among the Gods.
The Egyptians anticipated that their soul would become part of the cosmic universe after death and judgment.They feared the eternal darkness and living death that awaited the is their soul was eaten by the Amemait.
It was their earthly goal and hope to achieve eternal bliss in paradise. What paradise looked like, changed over the thousands of year of belief. It was always believed to be located by water and have cool breezes"The Garden of A'Aru" was one such concept
Personally, I believe the soul has no weight,nor can it be detected by the human senses. Its weight is as yet indefinable.
Conclusions of my own research are:
That the soul consists of an" essence" that we have as yet, been unable to scientifically prove or disprove exists,in the bodies of the living or the dead.
The 21gs could well be accounted for by the expiration and depletion of oxygen and other gas's from the body.
Especially if the body was moved even slightly, or bed or the bedding,such as removal of a pillow, adjusted in any way at all.
That said, I will continue to up hold my own personally defined aspects of belief, and remain convinced that I and my soul are as worthy as others.Who choose to follow a particular system of beliefs and those who follow a generic brand of what are essentially the same beliefs

Answer 3

At the hospital we did a test in the Cancer unit at holy cross hospital in SFV California over several weeks to try this theory
Every time a Patients would die all of our were on beds that you could weigh people each day the Patient was weight . When Death was impending we would balance out the bed and weigh the patient Then when death occurred, we found male or female before eliminating Bowel and urine would lose excate amt. just like they found in the study at time of death This would happen time and time again. with each patient none deviating from the excat amount.
Very intresting .

Answer 4

I think there was a movie out called 21 grams which was supposedly how much the soul weighs? At least I think that was what the movie was about. What I want to know, is how did someone just happen to notice a 21 gram difference in weight among different people. :)

Answer 5

I do not have a reference for this, but I heard years ago that a study was done on some people who had died, and they lost maybe 3 ounces total. I believe that your spirit goes to a place called the spirit world, which is sort of an in-between place located somewhere between the earth and heaven. We still look like ourselves but we are adults in the prime of life. We keep learning and growing, much like we do here, only our time is used more efficiently. Someday all the spirits of those who have ever lived on the earth will be resurrected, that is, they will receive their bodies again but this time in a perfected form, thanks to the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

I don't think a soul weighs anything. I don't know where they go to, but I do think that a soul leaves the body after death. Perhaps it just mixes with the air, and gently floats into the atmosphere.
Maybe it returns to the earth in the form of dew on the morning leaves.

Answer 7

It weighs exactly one ounce as to where it goes depends on the soul and where God wants it to go.

Answer 8

People lose 21 grams right when they die, perhaps that is the weight of the soul. Where it goes is a question I do not have an answer for :/

Answer 9

That depends on the so called Saint Peter guy who's supposed to be Heaven's bell boy.

Answer 10

Loving the funny absurd answers from the believers. You guys are freaking whack jobs