Spontaneous Human Combustion

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How could a man catch fire with no appeared source of a spark or flame? Several hundred cases of just this have been labeled “Spontaneous Human Combustion”. ”Spontaneous human combustion (SHC) is a term surrounding reported cases of the combustion of a living or very recently deceased human body without an apparent external source of ignition” (howstuffworks.com). There are many arguments that say SHC is not a natural occurring event due to chemical reactions inside the body. Some people say that spontaneous human combustion is just a regular fire that people can’t be bothered to find the cause for that could have been avoided through basic fire safety. Others say that it’s just a peculiar shift of our internal chemistry, which can happen to

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