Your soul weighs 21 grams?
Do you think this is a myth, or is it really true?
I have never tried weighing mine - have you?
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Yes, l slapped it on the weighing scales tonight. It’s put on weight and it now weighs one kilo! 
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Someone has probably been paid ÂŁ50,000.00 pa or more to work that one out. 
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So it wasn’t that second Magnum then
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Quote…
The April 1907 issue of American Medicine featured a paper by Dr. Duncan Macdougall describing his experiment whereby the beds of dying patients were placed on a sensitive balance. Believe it or not, he was trying to weigh the human soul! The paper was titled “Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance Together with Experimental Evidence of The Existence of Such Substance.” Macdougall of Haverhill, Massachusetts placed six dying patients on the specially constructed balance and concluded that at the moment of death there was a loss in weight of about three quarters of an ounce, or 21 grams. He had previously determined the weight loss attributed to evaporation of moisture form the skin, and by comparison this was sudden and much larger. He even controlled for weight loss due to urine and fecal eliminations and concluded that these could not account for the change in weight. Air loss from the lungs was not the answer either, as he determined by lying on the scale himself and noting that breathing had no effect on weight. After weighing his six patients, Macdougall went to work on dogs. How he got his hands on 15 dying dogs is not clear, but he found no weight loss at the moment they expired. He wasn’t surprised of course because he didn’t think dogs had souls. No one since has confirmed Macdougall’s findings but the movie “21 Grams” was based on this idea.
Perhaps he euthanised them?
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My soul is also known as my spirit. My spirit is like a puff of air and therefore cannot be weighed. You tried weighing air? Simply weigh a balloon uninflated and again inflated and record the difference.
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Atheism is so much simpler.
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My thoughts too, Spitty. 
So many animals suffer in the hands of mad scientists.
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I believe in snopes (fact checker) more. The sample size was only 6 bodies and the weights varied a lot. He didn’t account for sweating at death. Dogs don’t sweat in the same way.
As to believing in a soul, that’s a whole other question. 
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Bunkum! of course dogs have souls, jeez! 
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I sold my soul to rock and roll
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Best place for it! 
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Well, God gave Rock and Roll to you!! did you make a nice Prophet?
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I know this world abounds in R-souls 
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My BH was taught by nuns who were always telling her dogs didn’t go to heaven.She didn’t believe it then and still doesn’t.
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Well nuns don’t have the love of a good dog in their lives, so they aren’t really best placed to inform of such things 
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Ah, so there was a film Arty…He probably got another years worth of funding for his findings and the subsequent report. Nice work if you can get it…
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They could always call upon Father Dougal McGuire … isn’t that right Ted👍
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