Is it true that the soul weighs 3lbs? You loose 3lbs in death, right?

Question

Is that before or after the autopsy?

Answer 1

Well... if Kate Beckinsale is the angel of death, you tell ME how you're going to lose 3 lbs.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have heard stories over the years of loss weight that cannot be accounted for at death. It wasn't 3lbs but much less. I personally find that hard to believe since I would assume the spirit is weightless

Answer 4

Another urban myth. People who die don't suddenly weigh 3 pounds less. After a short while following death, bodily fluids will leak out - urine, and feces, for example. During a complete embalming, the body fluids are drained, and partially replaced with other fluids, so weight could change somewhat. There is no such thing as a "soul" and your conscience is in your brain that makes you think you have a soul-- your brain weighs 3 pounds, but it doesn't disappear when you die either.

Answer 5

No, its not true. Allegedly, the weight difference between a person that is alive, then weighed after death, is around 21 grams.

Fools state this is evidence of the soul. They forget to calculate that the corpse is no longer breathing, thus is missing about 5 liters of air from its lungs....

Answer 6

I believe it's 6 pounds, before autopsy

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I found this from a doctor:
This loss of weight could not be due to evaporation of respiratory moisture and sweat, because that had already been determined to go on, in his case, at the rate of one sixtieth of an ounce per minute, whereas this loss was sudden and large, three-fourths of an ounce in a few seconds. The bowels did not move; if they had moved the weight would still have remained upon the bed except for a slow loss by the evaporation of moisture depending, of course, upon the fluidity of the feces. The bladder evacuated one or two drams of urine. This remained upon the bed and could only have influenced the weight by slow gradual evaporation and therefore in no way could account for the sudden loss.

Suddenly coincident with death . . . the loss was ascertained to be three-fourths of an ounce."

"The weight lost was found to be half an ounce. Then my colleague auscultated the heart and and found it stopped. I tried again and the loss was one ounce and a half and fifty grains."

"My third case showed a weight of half an ounce lost, coincident with death, and an additional loss of one ounce a few minutes later."

"In the fourth case unfortunately our scales were not finely adjusted and there was a good deal of interference by people opposed to our work . . . I regard this test as of no value."

"My fifth case showed a distinct drop in the beam requiring about three-eighths of an ounce which could not be accounted for. This occurred exactly simultaneously with death but peculiarly on bringing the beam up again with weights and later removing them, the beam did not sink back to stay for fully fifteen minutes."

"My sixth and last case was not a fair test. The patient died almost within five minutes after being placed upon the bed and died while I was adjusting the beam."


ok I found this

So it is true

http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp

Its asks a doctor....

Answer 7

"Soul" is translated from the Hebrew word "Nephesh" which means ' that which breathes".
So our 'soul' is us, living, breathing.
there is NO separate part that flits off at death.
(ECCLESIASTES 9:5-6) “For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.”

So any religion, using the Bible, thaty teaches a separate [ immortal] soul, is simply wrong.
Not my opinion, but simple scripture.

Answer 8

Actually...it was ounces, not pounds (forget how many exactly)

There was some research on the missing weight upon death many years ago...but it was banned because it was considered too grisly by the public.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 9

If you loose 3lbs after death, it is likely your bodily fluids and what not coming out. (It is true that you poop your pants when you die... among other things).

If there is a soul - I don't think it weighs anything.

Answer 10

My God that's a heavy soul. I heard it was only six ounces. This obesity crap must be spreading to Heaven too. Not to Hell of course you would sweat that much out in the first half hour.