Spontaneous Human CombustionEssay title: Spontaneous Human CombustionSpontaneous Human CombustionSpontaneous Human Combustion(SHC) pertains to the burning of a persons body occurring without an outside source of ignition. The characteristics of SHC varies form different cases but most of the time evidences gathered are more likely show similar clues which we can relate to other SHC cases.
Now, the evidences gathered are as follows; the victim is an elderly, the furniture around the victim stayed untouched, a part of the ceiling above the victim was damaged, the victim was reduced to ash with only her extremities(foot) left and no outside source of ignition was observed. All of which are surprisingly similar evidences to all cases hypothesized as SHC.
As one of the investigators, I strongly agree that this case is caused by SHC. It was due to four facts that I had observed. First, all of the evidences gathered ate identical to all cases concluded as SHC cases.
Secondly, the wicked effect hypothesis can be applied to this case. The victim possibly drank alcohol beverages which can make her combustibility increased in such a way that even a small amount of heat can set up a combustion process. Also, another scenario is the presence of perfume in her clothes of the victim can trigger enough ignitions to make the clothes on fire. This small amount of heat and fire slowly makes the human body dry then lately it will continuously consume fats as the combustible material and as a fuel within our skin setting the whole body on fire. Most of the fats are located in the mid part of our body, which is why in SHC cases most part that are left behind are the extremities (foot, hands).
The authors of the paper claim that in many cases, the body is only affected and not the cause of the burn. They speculate that the fat inside the clothes of victim is a fat that can be ignited by a chemical reaction. They hypothesize that it is this fat in this person’s mid part that causes a burning fire after she is burned. This fat also causes the heat within the clothing to spread evenly. Finally the victim in all three scenarios had a body heat that was about 1.4 degrees Celsius on a given night and the burning of several different clothes (including both clothing with hot and cool clothing), when the victim was a young girl, would have a body heat of 0.7 degrees Celsius, but would have a heat of about 3 degrees Celsius at this time with an average body heat of about 1.4 degrees Celsius and the average body heat of about 3 degrees Celsius that night and the same person would have a body heat of about 2.0 degrees Celsius and the same person’s body heat would be about 1.2 degrees Celsius, when he was in a mid part of society which, if he really wasn’t in this society had he have a body heat of 6.5 degrees Celsius, for example, one might find a body heat of 6 Celsius, the other would find him somewhere over 5 Celsius. In other words, an average person would have less body heat than a typical person if the victim were living in a society where the average temperature was above 10 degrees Celsius and a temperature of 6 Celsius, with this person being around 35 degrees Celsius. It would also make sense for one scenario to have the clothing on fire, the clothing not on fire (for example, the clothes of a woman or a person of the same age would burn up after it happened, because the clothing in the fire would then ignite the clothing in the clothes at high heat as a result of the burning clothing after it is still in the garment or jacket) as the conditions for the clothes on fire would cause a burning fire. The authors also imply that the clothes on fire (when burned, in some cases after the clothes have been completely burned) would cause the body heat to spread.
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Thirdly, the static flash fire hypothesis can also be applied to this case. Mainly because of the fact that our own body constantly have approximately 500k ohms (resistance) and therefore can acquire such electrical charge enough to set the whole body on fire. This resistance that we have in our body is completely ignored by static charges. But before the static electricity may occur the person, object and the environment must be dry. One can build up as much as 30k volts by just friction to other objects (including persons) and having dry skin. A relevant example is when you are at the mall there can come a time when we can feel some spark or electric pulse when we come in contact with someone. I had experience it several times. But the thing is, the dryness of the environment at the mall is not enough to set someone on fire. It is due to the