The Existence Of The Human Soul

Have you ever heard of Dr. Duncan “Om” MacDougall? He was born in 1866, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA and died in 1920. You may know him as the doctor (surgeon) who tried to weigh the human soul. It’s common to believe that the soul is 21 grams: it is the weight we lose when we die. In 1901, Dr. MacDougall picked up six terminally-ill patients (five men and one woman) who were suffering from tuberculosis. Their death was few hours away and he could placed them on a special bed with a scale (sensitive to the gram). The surgeon measured their bodies before and after the patients’ death. The ‘before’ and ‘after’ results weren't the same but the average weight each one lost was 21 grams. There were three large problems with his scientific experiment, if you think about it. First of all, the sample size was not large enough. Second, not all of them lost the same weight. And the third problem is that even nowadays we can't be sure about the exact time of death. We determine the heart death, but that cannot be the right time to “measure” souls, right? That was the reason Dr. MacDougall put 15 dogs through the same experiment. Sadly, it showed no weight changes, which made him believe that only humans have souls. Did you know there is a movie “21 Grams” is based on the doctor’s experiments? It has won a lot of awards through the years. Thanks to Dr. “Om” we have had some kind of proof regarding the existence of immortal human soul. It may be 21 grams, for real! Until someone else proves otherwise…