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Fact:
Between 1995 and 2000, there were  466 cases of people  that spontaneously burst into flames.
Fact:
Since 2001, there has been an increasing number of 1,051 says Heinz Koubek from the Prague-based international Commision on Unexplained Human Death.
Fact:
Science still has no answers to the mystery.
Fact:
It could happen to anyone!!! 

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Theory on Spontanious Human Combustion.

 Spontanious Human Cunbustion  (SHC) is caused by an emotional reaction to circumstance.  Emotion has eight different faces that Robert Plutchik developed (1980) his theory shows eight primary human emotions: joy, acceptance, fear, submission, sadness, disgust, anger,  and anticipation and argued that all human emotions can be derived from these. The term emotion is used to denote individual, subjective feelings which dictate moods.  In psychology, emotion is considered a response to stimuli that involves characteristic physiological changes: such as increase in the pulse rate, rise in body temperature, greater or less activity of certain glands, changes in the rate of breathing and motivates the individual to further activity.  In understanding the eight different masks that emotion rears on its face,  throw in some physical reality to ones inner body and to take into account it's complexity and ability to produce chemicals and create an electronical current on its own accord.  These two in combination are what happens upon SHC when linked with blood and or plasma.   Psychologists Sylvan Tomkins (1963) and Paul Ekman (1982) have contended that "basic" emotions can be quantified because all humans employ the same facial muscles when expressing a particular emotion.  At this point, the chemistry of the body's glands, chemicals, hormones, enzyme or coenzyme, compound or maybe some unknown substance.  In the 1960s, the Schachter-Singer theory pointed out that cognitive processes, not just physiological reactions, played a significant role in determining emotions.
Emotion creates many different aspects all at once.  Different facial expressions created by different emotions starts several physiological changes within the body that ignite the release of many chemicals, hormones, and energy simultaniously.
The process that is when SHC starts is called Phosphorylation, that is a chemical process in which a phosphate group is added to an organic molecule. In living cells phosphorylation is associated with respiration, which takes place in the cell's mitochondria, and photosynthesis, which takes place in the chloroplasts. The energy released during metabolic or photosynthetic processes is captured in the energy-rich phosphate bonds of certain molecules, most commonly in the high-energy bonds of adenosine triphosphate (ATP). In the process of oxidative phosphorylation ATP formation is associated with respiratory uptake of oxygen   This chemical is produced with the increase in pulse rate. Any of the eight masks could all increase a pulse rate, raise body temperature, change breathing habits and make glands unstable.  The net result in phosphorylation of ADP is the formation of the high energy molecule ATP, which the cell can use as a kind of universal energy currency to power many important cell processes.  ATP is a coenzyme of vast importance in the transfer of chemical energy derived from biochemical oxidation.  Organic compound composed of adenine, the sugar ribose, and the three phosphate groups. If the chemical is broken down correctly the end result would be using the energy released from the breakdown of fuel molecules, such as sugars and fats.  Another aspect of ATP is that it also acts as a neurotransmitter, receptors are widespread throughout the body.  On its own it is known to have effects in the arteries, intestines, lungs, and bladder.  It is also often released in tandem with other neurotransmitters, perhaps to add chemical stability. Adenosine monophosphate (AMP)  is a possible product of the hydrolysis of ATP, that can act as a secondary messenger for several hormones.  AMP plays a role in the transcription of some genes.
Another change that is happening is that an hormone is being released and messages are being sent through the human body. Adrenocorticotropic hormone is a polypeptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary gland.  This is done in turn to make the hypothalamus produce a secretion. The thalamus is a routing station for all incoming sensory impulses except those of smell, transmitting them to higher (cerebral) nerves centers. It also connects various brain centers with others.  Thus, the thalamus is a major integrative complex, enabling sensory stimuli to evoke appropriate physical reactions as well as to affect emotions. Hypothalamus is an important supervisory center in the brain, rich in ganglia, nerve fibers, and synaptic connections. It is composed of several sections called nuclei, each of which controls a specific function.  The hypothalamus regulates body temperature, blood pressure, heartbeat, metabolism of fats and carbohydrates, and sugar levels in the blood.  The role of the hypothalamus in awareness of pleasure and pain has been well established in the laboratory.  It is thought to be involved in the expression of emotions, such as fear and rage.  Pituitary gland is a small oval endocrine gland that lies at the base on the brain.  It is sometimes called the master gland of the body because all the other endocrine glands depend on its secretions for stimulation.  The endocrine glands appear unique in that the hormones they produce do not pass through tubes or ducts.  The hormones are secreted directly into the internal environment, where they are transmitted via the bloodstream or by diffusion and act at distant points in the body.
  Catecholamine is any of several compounds occurring naturally in the body that serve as hormones or as neutrotransmitter in the sympathetic nervous system.  These catecholamines include such compounds as epinephrine or adrenaline, norepinephrine, and dopamine.  Epinephrine and norepinephrine  are hormones that are secreted by the adrenal medulla. And norepinephrine is also secreted by some nerve fibers. And is probably a chemical transmitter at nerve synapses. These substances ready the body to meet emergencies such as cold, fatigue, and shock.  The sympathetic nervous system functions in response to short-term stress: hence norepinephrine and epinephrine increase the heart rate as well as blood pressure.
By creating these chemicals, they increase both the heart rate and blood pressure. Gases may act as electrolytes or high temperatures and low blood pressure, this again is linking it back to emotion.   In electrochemistry science is dealing with the relationship between electricity and chemical change.  Emotion is the key factor is SHC due to the fact that one facial reaction could release chemicals of high energy charge that could make a human body increase in pulse rate, raise in body temperature, activity of certain glands, and change in the rate of breathing. By passing a very high electric current through the blood or plasma a great heat is produced and then simultaneously, an electromagnetic field is created, causing the plasma to withdraw from the walls of the arteries. The contraction of plasma is the pitch effect, when pertaining to Selective burning.  Blood and plasma come with their own electric charge.  The cells share a number of common properties, the use of adenosine triphosphate as means of transferring energy for the cell's internal process and enclosed in a cell membrane, that controls the flow of material into and out of a cell.
Brain consists of some 10 billion interconnected nerves cells and innumeral extensions.  The interlacing of the nerve fibers and their junctions allows a nerve impulse to follow any of a virtually unlimited number of pathways. SHC is caused by an emotion that is mood altering.  The release of a chemical in combination with the other physical changes creates an electrical charge from one of the many neruotransmitters.  This combination is leathel and causes a sort of plasma reaction. The properties of plasma are distinct from those ordinary states of matter, and for this reason many scientists consider plasma a forth state of matter. Some say  when you go to a movie or to an amusement park you don't see people combusting off of emotion trigged by that particular event.   I think that the reason they are not is do to the fact they know what they are getting themselves into. They anticapate there own reaction before it happens. They go willingly to that event knowing what to expect.  So therefore, the nanosecond of time that happens when you can see true emotion is the deciding point for either fiction or reality. Fiction being mental thought. One can only assume what to expect but the thought is there. In reality, the emotion is so real that you can't turn it off.  Pre-thought of an experience is a practice run, there fore the body is pre-programmed.
   
I think the is formula for SHC is as follows:
Emotion x's 3 + Physical Change x's 5 + Chemical Reactions ( numerous) + Movement of plasma or blood via bloodstream = Energy or SHC 
                                       
I believe that this happens  by a spontanious circumstance that creates an emotion and that emotion is interperted to be real which in turn starts the body of reacting in different ways.  The body temparture  rises, breathing intake increases producing the bonds through the oxygen, like a fuel.  As breathing pattern would increase the bonds would be created on mass levels. That is assisting the progression of the process. With the other aspects of emotion moving at high speed as well. Other chemicals are being released at the same time the body tempature is rising. The body is going throw a hugh experience. The human body is known to have gases and the body has an electrical charge that charge is passed  via the bloodstream. Producing a reaction from within. The body is creating, producing and reacting on mass scales.  Heat is produced as well as energy, gases, chemicals all while the body is holding a charge. Maybe everything going off at once is creating nuclear energy that is moving through the body that is actually SHC. I believe that a number of common links are present. I can see how they  all being intertwined to creates that spark that ignites the human body.  Human spontanious emotion is the key. A sudden freak moment that happens causing the body to melt from within. 
Written and summited by:
Amy Hughes
Field Analysist for the  D.A.R.K.
     

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All the information for this article was gathered from
AllRefer Reference Encyclopedia via internet.           
Some material gathered from the Sun magazine issue 11/04/2003
page 4.

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