{"id":246596,"date":"2024-02-24T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/scientists-say-this-is-where-your-soul-goes-once-you-die\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T11:45:35","slug":"scientists-say-this-is-where-your-soul-goes-once-you-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/scientists-say-this-is-where-your-soul-goes-once-you-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say This Is Where Your Soul Goes Once You Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In the same way death and taxes are inescapable, so are these two questions: <em>Is there such thing as a human soul? And, if so, what happens to it when the physical body dies?<\/em> Regardless of where you fall on the afterlife spectrum, everyone asks these questions at some point in their life.<\/p>\n<h2>Duncan MacDougall\u2019s Experiment: Trying to Prove the Soul<\/h2>\n<p>Massachusetts physician Duncan MacDougall sought to answer that first question in the early 1900s in one of the most famous metaphysical experiments to date. Using a total of six bodies of people who died of tuberculosis, he sought to, in essence, weigh the soul. After completing to small yet measurable experiment, MacDougall concluded that the human soul weighed around \u00be of an ounce (or 21 grams).[1]<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-628\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At first, MacDougall\u2019s findings sound incredible \u2013 especially for the time he was conducting these experiments! Not only does it suggest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthy-holistic-living.com\/life-after-death\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=life-after-death\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on www.healthy-holistic-living.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same way death and taxes are inescapable, so are these two questions: Is there such thing as a human soul? And, if so, what happens to it when the physical body dies? Regardless of where you fall on the afterlife spectrum, everyone asks these questions at some point in their life. Duncan MacDougall\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":246597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scientists Say This Is Where Your Soul Goes Once You Die - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthy-holistic-living.com\/life-after-death\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=life-after-death\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Scientists Say This Is Where Your Soul Goes Once You Die\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the same way death and taxes are inescapable, so are these two questions: Is there such thing as a human soul? 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