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It is theoretically possible for fire to start and

survive inside the human body, but it is
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extremely rare and dangerous

Trystan Rummery
an observer of the natural world · Author has 493
answers and 1M answer views · 6y ·

Related How does fire survive inside the human

body?
It...can't. I can't think of any scenario whereby a flame
small enough to be present within the body could
actually remain lit in the body.

Could it remain lit in the stomach or gut? No, oxygen

would be in very short supply and moisture would
quickly snuff it out. What about the lungs? Again, I
severely doubt a small flame could be sustained in that
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No, no way. The human body is mostly water. Try taking

a chunk of meat and try setting fire to it with a match.
Setting a fire inside the body is much harder than that. I
know, there are TEEVEE SHOWS that have people
claiming to have burned, but you’ll notice they never
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No. But if you’re talking about the phenomenon called

“spontaneous combustion”, there is a perfectly
plausible explanation here .

In short, someone is smoking a cigarette and suddenly

dies, dropping the cigarette on their clothing.
(Alternatively, is drunk or drugged and drops the
cigarette; they are later killed by the smoke that soon
develops.) The cigarette burns a hole in the skin. Fat
under the skin (which all healthy persons have) will melt
and be sucked into the clothes, just like a candle wick.
This goes on until the entireReading
Continue body is consumed. The
water in the body will just evaporate, jus
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Highly unlikely. There are some substances that will

burn while in contact with water or moisture. These
substances could be introduced to the body and begin
burning, but not very likely that the body could
somehow produce them on its own.

water reactive metals - Google Search

Thanks for the a2a Richard.

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suggest at least a couple of methods. Lay pout a body
on the table. Cut open the body cavity. Make a pile of
the powdered metals for thermite and place part 1 of
the igniter on top of the pile. Apply the second part of
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a high percentage of water, unless water can be made
to give up it’s oxygen such as by sodium. The body has
lots of phosphorous too but not in a form that can burn.

Since none of these metals and such exist in pure

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potassium in the body are not going to spontaneously
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because of the water, there is no way to naturally
support a fire inside a body. I don’t buy into SHC as
being anything real or possible so fire does not survive
inside the human body for any natural reasons though
we can come up with all sorts of unnatural reasons.
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