>>Interesting... though, judging by what people wrote there, it's too much religion related for my taste. I may still look it up.
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>I think it refers to the belief that the soul has a weight. Somebody claimed it weighed 21 grams - see http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp - but the investigation was not very accurate.
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>Even for many who do believe in a soul (like me), this is very doubtful, the soul not being exactly part of this mortal world.

There seem to be too many flaws in the experiment - first, not using a precise digital scale which would leave a second-to-second graph, second, publishing the whole thing after only four measurements (plus the two discarded ones), and third and foremost: the doctor is not a single bit impartial observer. I'd rather see this done by someone who doesn't even take the term "soul" and all of its conotations into any account, but just wants to see what happens with the body mass at the moment of death.

The guy may even be right, for all the wrong reasons, and despite his troublesome methods :).