Argumentative Essay On Ghost Existence

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interchangeability. According to The diary and observations of Thomas Alva Edison (Runes, 1976), he said that “I believe, rightly or wrongly, that life is undestructable, it is true, and I also believe that there has always been a fixed quantity of life on this planet, and that this quantity can neither be increased or decreased.” From Edison’s point of view, nothing could be created or destroyed. Therefore, he speculated that life units which change from one form to another form were applied to all lives on this planet. Some people argued that if his theory did work, how could those ghosts have memory and personality? He explained that this works like fingerprint. If you burn it, it will grow back the same way. That’s why ghost has the same …show more content…
Also, if ghost try to move objects or make some noise, they have to gather the heat at least for sixty joules. This is the reason why people usually reported that the areas they found ghost were colder than normal. Therefore, in terms of physics, apparition literally is a form of energy (Carpenter 1980, 44). Another scientist who supports in ghost existence is a Thai doctor, a scientist, and a professor who used to teach at Harvard University, Dr. Thepanom Muangman. He claimed that he can communicate with ghosts and explained that they live in the fourth dimension. He also mentioned the spiritual stories from the people who survived after their hearts had stopped beating and the people who have near death experience. Those people said that their spirits went to certain places, just like the story told by Eben Alexander, a Harvard professor. Alexander narrated his Near-Death Experience (NDE) during a coma in which he says that his spirit went out of his body (2012, 12). Dr. Muangman has the similar idea to other scientists. He thinks that ghost is the energy that comes out from human’s body after death (Chayangkul,

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