The first officially recorded case of human spontaneous combustion occurred on February 19, 1725 in a small Parisian hotel. The alcoholic wife of the owner, Jacques Millet, went down to the basement, taking with her a bottle of wine. The husband fell asleep without waiting for his wife. He was awakened by the smell of burning. Jacques Milpe hastily dressed and rushed downstairs. There he saw a terrible picture: the remains of an unfortunate woman smoldered on an armchair.
The court tried to accuse the hotel owner of premeditated murder, but the innocent was saved from execution by one amazing circumstance: his wife was burnt from the inside! The victim's clothes turned out to be unburned. "Le Sha, a doctor who was in the hotel that night, managed to prove to the judges that no mortal is capable of burning a human body without damaging the surrounding objects.

Such chilling incidents are far from rare in history. Most often, fat women addicted to wine were the victims of spontaneous combustion. Therefore, even 300 years ago, many believed that this was God's punishment for an unrighteous lifestyle. But sometimes fire punished innocent people.

American Jack Angel, completely sober, went to bed in his van on November 12, 1974. He woke up only four days later and was horrified to see that his right arm had burned to ashes. Large areas of skin on his back were also burned. When questioned, the unfortunate man could not say anything intelligible. He managed to remember only "a strange semblance of an explosion in the chest." Camping neighbors, who came to the rescue, were amazed to find undamaged pajamas on Jack Angel.The forensic medical experts were also extremely surprised - the victim's hand was burnt from the inside This was evidenced by the preserved skin and bone that turned to ash Specialists had been disassembling and reassembling the truck for more than two years discover the causes of the strange phenomenon, but to no avail.

In 1985 in England there were several cases of spontaneous combustion of people at once. So, on January 28, a young student, who went down to the lobby of Widnes College in Cheshire, suddenly flared up in front of shocked acquaintances and soon died. Another victim was an elderly widow, Mary Carter, who was found dead in the hallway of her apartment in Ivorroad, Sparkhill, Birmingham. They did not find any matches next to the corpse. They could not understand where the fire came from.

A month later, on May 25, 19-year-old computer operator Paul Hayes had a stomach flare as he calmly walked on Stephen Green in London. He managed to get to the hospital where doctors rescued him because the fire burned for only about 30 seconds. 1988 in England, a 71-year-old woman survived spontaneous combustion, but her husband was seriously burned while saving his wife from the fire. In April 1990, a 14-year-old boy from Hunan Province, China, had an involuntary flare-up on several occasions. Small trickles of flame burst from the enlarged pores on his skin. On May 29 of the same year in Los Angeles (USA), 26-year-old Angela Hernandez, a patient at a medical center, suddenly caught fire on the operating table and died.

Similar cases are known in Russia. One of them occurred in November 1990 in Saratov region... Two shepherds accidentally wandered onto the slope of the hill, which, according to local beliefs, should be avoided. Feeling tired, one of them sat down on a stone, and the other went to calm the sheep, frightened by something.Having returned five minutes later, the shepherd found the burnt corpse of his partner. Before the arrival of the doctors and the police, the corpse was transferred to the cart. Eyewitnesses testified that the clothes on it were not damaged by the flame. However, when the body was removed from the cart, its bottom turned out to be burnt. The case on the shepherd's charge of setting fire to his partner was closed for lack of evidence.

Do strange cases of spontaneous combustion lend themselves to explanation? According to South African professor Jackie van Stroil, there may be several hypotheses. under unknown conditions, the formed pure phosphorus reacts with oxygen and explodes "

The next assumption is based on the fact that other substances, combustible gases released by the body, as well as fats, which are especially abundant in the body of fat men, can also ignite. century, the hypothesis of spontaneous combustion of drunkards was popular, whose bodies are alcoholized and therefore flare up from any spark, even when smoking

The above hypotheses still cannot explain why, in most cases, the surrounding objects, and sometimes the clothes of the victims, remain intact.

Spontaneous human combustion is an amazing mystery that has confused scientists for several millennia. It is pointless to argue about its existence - the real facts of spontaneous combustion are known. Let's try together to deal with this paranormal phenomenon.

Spontaneous human combustion- this is an instant ignition of the body without any external influence, that is, there are completely no signs of fire or fire. As a rule, people are burned to the extremities so that they remain completely unrecognizable. Interestingly, with this phenomenon, only one body burns out, since clothing and nearby objects remain completely intact.

Notable cases

In total, more than a hundred cases of spontaneous combustion are known to date. The first mention of human spontaneous combustion is associated with Polonus Vorstius. He was a common Italian knight of the late 1400s. The young man loved wine, women and songs. He drank a lot of wine at night. It is said to have burst into flames immediately and then burst into flames. People were confused as to how this happened. However, it is believed that it was the huge amount of wine that caused such an unusual death.

There is only one case of spontaneous combustion with the presence of a witness. The disabled woman lived with her father, who took care of her. One day he saw a flash from the corner. Suddenly, the man found his daughter on fire. Despite the fire, the woman continued to sit quietly in the chair, without reacting or giving any signs that she was in unbearable pain. Attempts to extinguish the fire left the man with burnt hands. The woman died.

In December 2010, Michael Facherty died in his bedroom in County Galway, Ireland. The man's body was completely burned. This death was officially registered as "spontaneous combustion". The physician, Kieran McLaughlin, noted during his death research: “I have carefully studied the causes of ignition and the origin of fire. This death is unambiguously related to the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion of a person, for which there is no adequate explanation. "

Despite the fact that there are no statistical reports on this phenomenon, nevertheless, certain conclusions can be drawn about the victims:

• Most of the victims were female
• Many victims are known to be alcoholics
• Many victims were overweight
• Hands and feet did not succumb to fire
• After burning the body, there was a greasy sticky ash and a pungent disgusting odor.
• During spontaneous combustion, most of the victims were alone and indoors.

This phenomenon is still an unsolved mystery for scientists. There are a huge number of conflicting theories and explanations for such a unique phenomenon. However, the following 2 theories are the most popular among the scientific community.

The wick effect theory

If you believe this theory, then the human body can be represented in the form of a candle. The candle itself is a wax cylinder that holds an inner wick. Thus, people can ignite even from a minor external source. Even an elementary lit cigarette can become an ignition agent. At the same time, people themselves are burned from the inside.

The body fat acts as a wax, and clothes or hair act as a wick. At high temperature the fat melts, penetrates into clothes and slowly burns from the inside like a candle. It is because of this that the combustion process itself occurs slowly inside a person, absolutely not harming the surrounding things.

Internal ignition

The adherents of this theory are convinced that the body is ignited from the inside by the malfunction itself. Presumably, we are talking about a sudden mitochondrial dysfunction, which is responsible for the production of energy in cells. Hydrogen, carbon and oxygen are released in the body and an extremely violent reaction occurs (due to pressure and temperature).

Which of these hypotheses is true and whether at least one of them is true is a huge unanswered question. And further long time we will not be able to find out the solution to this phenomenon. One thing is clear - spontaneous combustion exists and almost everyone can face it in their lives.

Since ancient times, mysterious cases have been known when people, without the presence of an external fire, suddenly flared up and quickly burned up, turning into a heap of ash or a coal-like mass. Scientists did not believe in the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion for a long time, but more than a hundred officially registered cases forced them to look for some explanation for this anomalous phenomenon.

THE SECRET OF HUMAN COMBUSTION

It is now recognized by many scientists that humans can actually suddenly ignite without being exposed to an external fire source. According to various sources, over the past hundred years, from two hundred to several hundred people were burnt in such a mysterious way, 120 cases are considered officially registered.

In 1776, in the journal of the British Royal Medical Association, Dr. Henry Rockwall reported the mysterious death of his uncle, Sir Rockwall. The burnt corpse of his uncle was found in his own bed, and there were no signs of a struggle around, and the pajamas on the burnt body were absolutely intact ... There was a version that Sir Rock-wall was killed somewhere else, then his corpse was burned, and then, in order to confuse the investigation, they brought the burned body into the house, dressed him in pajamas and put him to bed. However, it was possible to establish that the body of Sir Rockwall, under the influence of the flame, had turned into a fragile, fragile mass, on which it was not possible to put on pajamas. The investigation had to admit that Rockwall burned down in his own bed, and burned so that neither the bed nor his pajamas were damaged by the fire ...

PEOPLE GET LITTING ON MORE OFTEN

For the first time, scientists drew attention to this phenomenon in 1951, when on July 2, in the American city of St. Petersburg (Florida), a burned out 67-year-old Mary Reaser was discovered in her apartment. All that was left of the old woman was a pile of ash, a skull, and a completely intact left leg in a slipper. Despite the highest temperature required for such a combustion of the body, the situation in the apartment of the deceased remained intact.

Over the past two decades, according to a number of researchers, cases of spontaneous human combustion (SPF) have increased. In 1990, a bum named Bailey caught fire in London. Passers-by called the firefighters, attempts by some daredevils to extinguish the man did not give anything. Firefighters who quickly arrived in time saw a terrible picture: from a ten-centimeter diameter hole in Bailey's stomach, tongues of flame burst out. It was not possible to save him.

One of the last cases of spontaneous combustion was recorded in 2010. 76-year-old Michael Fogerty burned down. According to individual prints for last years, this terrible phenomenon has been noted more than once in our country and in space the former USSR- in Tomsk, Tomilino (Moscow region), Bishkek, and in other places.

ON THE WAY TO UNDERSTANDING THE PHENOMENON

It is known that our body is at least two-thirds composed of water and other non-combustible components, which is why many scientists have long denied the possibility of spontaneous combustion of humans. Those of them who nevertheless believed in it began to look for some reasonable explanation for this phenomenon. The first hypothesis was rather uncomplicated, according to it, only alcoholics, who had alcoholized their flesh so much that it ignited from any spark, spontaneously ignited. However, this hypothesis could not be experimentally confirmed, and there were many teetotalers among the victims of the SSH.

Then came the "wick effect" hypothesis. It is believed that it was first proposed in 1961 by the London physician Gavin Thurston. According to the hypothesis, a flame accidentally hitting a person in some cases ignites not outerwear, but linen. Subcutaneous fat melts and ignites. At the same time, the outerwear plays the role of a kind of screen that allows you to maintain a high combustion temperature, the victim burns to ashes. Experiments with pork carcasses wrapped in cloth were quite spectacular, but the carcasses burned for a long time - up to 12 hours, and the cloth with which they were wrapped was not preserved. The SSF phenomenon was characterized by an incredible burning rate, sometimes a person turned into a heap of ash in a matter of seconds, and his clothes usually remained intact.

In 1971, the Soviet academician Yakov Zeldovich discovered "otones", as he called the microscopic "black holes" that exist in nature. According to research by British physicists, these are particles the size of an atomic nucleus, but they are 40 times the mass of an atom. Such microscopic "black holes" are present not only in space, but also in the bowels of the earth. The famous physicist Stephen Hawking calculated that these particles emit an enormous amount of energy. According to a number of scientists, it is otons that can cause the phenomenon of SSF. Having collided with the human body, they interact with its internal otones, resulting in a thermal explosion. Its energy is not released, but absorbed, which leads to an incredibly high combustion temperature, and the body turns to ash literally in a matter of seconds.

Russian scientist Anatoly Stekhin from the Research Institute of Ecology and Hygiene environment The Russian Academy of Medical Sciences believes that the SSF phenomenon is a manifestation of cold plasma combustion. “Three-quarters of a person consists of liquid formations,” explains the scientist, “roughly speaking, of water. Free radicals in its molecules are capable of taking up energy. It can be either solar or biological energy. In exceptional cases, it bursts out with a stream of quanta. This is cold plasma combustion. With it, the external body temperature does not exceed 36 degrees, and the internal reaches 2000 degrees. Almost twice as high as in a crematorium oven! " This theory explains well the mysterious feature of the phenomenon, when even one ash remains from the bones of the legs, but the shoes remain intact.

But according to the Japanese scientist Hirachi Igo, the cause of spontaneous combustion of a person can be a change in the course of time in his body. While functioning normally, our body generates and radiates into the surrounding space a certain amount of heat. If, for some reason, a chronic failure occurs in the internal processes of the body, then the released heat will not have time to go into space, and the person will burn because of it.

More recently, the British biologist Brian J. Ford proposed a rather curious hypothesis. In his opinion, acetone, which under a number of conditions can accumulate in the human body, can be the cause of the HSC. Ketosis (accumulation of acetone) can occur with alcoholism, diabetes, unbalanced diet (high in fat and low in carbohydrates), and a number of other cases. The scientist conducted a rather convincing experiment, during which a pig with flesh saturated with acetone and “dressed up” in clothes quickly burned out, set on fire by a spark. The vulnerability of this hypothesis is external human inflammation.

Some scientists (Academician V. Kaznacheev, Professor Gennady Petrakovich and others) believe that the source of energy in a living human cell is a thermonuclear reaction. If the cellular "mechanism" malfunctions, an uncontrolled chain reaction can occur, in which a huge amount of energy is released, literally incinerating a person.

Mary nobody set fire

Experimental biologist Brian J. Ford assures that he has finally found the cause of spontaneous combustion of people. What he and his colleagues first reported in the specialized magazine The Microscope, and then in the popular science New Sientist.

For the first time, I learned about the fact that people can ignite on their own and burn in a matter of minutes about 30 years ago. Then I came across an article about this in some foreign magazine. And forever engraved in the memory of an eerie photograph from him - a leg in a black shoe. This is all that remains of the elderly 79-kilogram American Mary Reaser, who was burned down on July 1, 1951 in St. Petersburg (Florida). A leg and a pile of ashes were found in the morning by a son who came to visit. The handle of the door to his mother's room, which he tried to open, was still hot ...

The stopped clock showed the time at which the ignition occurred - 4 hours 20 minutes in the morning. Mary was dozing in an armchair. It also burned down - to the springs. And nothing else was touched by the fire - not even the newspapers lying nearby. No traces of soot were found on the walls and ceiling, the smell of smoke was barely felt.

This is the most amazing sight I've ever seen, ”admitted later Dr. Wilton Krogman, a medical examiner at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine who was involved in the investigation. - It is impossible to understand how the intense burning of the body did not cause an extensive fire. A fire of such power would inevitably destroy the premises and all the furnishings in it.

Scientists have established the main thing: no one set the woman on fire.

There are few burnt in hellfire, but they are

Now the case with Mary Reaser is considered a classic appearance of the nightmare phenomenon, called spontaneous human combustion (Spontaneous Human Combustion - SHC).

Most scientists believe that he is a phenomenon. Back in 1870, a brochure was published at the University of Aberdeen (Scotland). Its authors analyzed the attitude of colleagues to the mysterious phenomenon - from among those who tried to understand it. Only eight out of 35 considered it a hoax, and in documented cases they suspected arson. The rest did not doubt that people are capable of catching fire on their own.

The death toll from SHC is not large - about 120 cases worldwide for the entire time of the documented record. Which is extremely small. And this, by the way, gave grounds to assert that an equally rare phenomenon is to blame for the phenomenon - ball lightning. Like, it burns out people, somehow penetrating into the body. But this hypothesis has not received any serious confirmation.

It is reliably known that only one person "became famous" in Russia - the shepherd Bisen Mamaev. On November 11, 1990, he burned down in a field on the border of the Saratov and Volgograd regions. His remains were found by his brother. The fire burned the internal organs of the shepherd, slightly charred the skin and burned his underwear. And the outerwear remained almost intact. Vadim Chernobrov, the leader of the Cosmopoisk research group, who visited the site of the tragedy, told me about this mysterious incident.

Alcoholics rehabilitated

So what makes people ignite? What's burning in them?

For a long time, quite serious researchers believed that only alcoholics ignite spontaneously. And alcohol blazes, overwhelming their organisms. However, the first scientist who undertook to test this hypothesis experimentally was convinced of its inconsistency. German Jastus von Leibig found out: even well-alcoholized fabrics do not flare up. Moreover, he injected 70 percent alcohol directly into dead rats - they did not burn.

The "wick hypothesis" is still popular and has not been completely rejected. Or a "living candle". It was first put forward back in 1961 by London physician Gavin Thurston in the Medico-Legal Journal. He believed that a person in clothes becomes a wick. The man is on fire. And the fat melted at this time keeps the flame alive. Until it all burns out.

How the "wicks" are blazing was shown twice on TV in popular science programs of the BBC - in 1986 and 1998. Demonstrated on cloth-wrapped pork carcasses. The carcasses were on fire. But for a very long time - up to 12 hours. And the "clothes" on them were not preserved. And the carcasses themselves did not turn into heaps of ash, as happened with people who were burned in a hellish flame.

The "dressed" pig burned well, but for a long time. And it flared up with difficulty

Caution ketosis

No, the "wick hypothesis" does not work, says Brian Ford. - It does not explain all the features of the phenomenon. And alcohol, for which they sinned before, is irrelevant. If only because it does not accumulate. On the contrary, it is broken down by metabolism.

And yet, as Ford explains, a highly flammable substance can appear in the body. Which is also capable of accumulating. This is acetone.

The production of acetone in the metabolic process begins when the blood glucose decreases - the main source of energy in the human body. The deficit leads to the fact that alternative mechanisms are activated. Fat cells begin to break down. A chain of biochemical reactions, for which the liver is responsible, ultimately leads to the fact that special substances - the so-called ketones - enter the bloodstream. They become sources of nutrition and carriers of energy instead of glucose.

Acetone is a type of ketone. Its accumulation is promoted by some diets that cause the so-called ketosis. Diseases like diabetes also lead.

An excess of a combustible substance in the body causes spontaneous combustion, the scientist believes. He tested this by "pickling" pieces of pork in acetone.

From the pieces, Ford made scale models of human bodies. I put them on. And set it on fire. Burned down in less than half an hour. The clothes were left untouched in places. The limbs have also been preserved. Just like in the photo of the victims of spontaneous combustion.

Of course, the question remains open, where does that spark come from, from which the hellish flame is ignited? Here Ford has no clear opinion. He only believes that static electricity can participate in setting a person on fire. Therefore, the scientist advises against wearing synthetic clothing, which often throws sparks. It is especially dangerous for people in ketosis.

HISTORICAL REFERENCE

Over 500 years in the line of fire

The first documented evidence dates back to 1470. It is described how the Italian knight Polonius Vortius, having drunk a fair amount of wine, began, in front of close relatives, to spew flame, then flared up and burned to ashes in a matter of minutes. Thanks to this and some other cases, they began to believe that a person was burned by the devil's fire, Satan was incinerated.

In 1763, a Frenchman Jean Dupont published a book with a collection of cases of human spontaneous combustion called "De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis". And he told about Nicolas Millet, from whom the court dropped the charge of murdering his wife, when the court was convinced that she died as a result of spontaneous combustion.

From his wife Millet, a Parisian drinking heavily, only a pile of ash, a skull and legs remained. The straw mattress she was lying on remained intact.

In 1850, the German chemist Jastus von Leibig conducted the first scientific study of spontaneous human combustion. And he proved that the hypothesis prevailing at that time was not correct. Then there was no doubt that the cause of the phenomenon was alcohol, which alcoholics were "impregnated with". Like, from him they flare up.

The last documented evidence dates back to December 22, 2010 - a lonely old man, 76-year-old Michael Fogerty, was burned to death in Ireland. Experts, having suffered with the investigation for a whole year, in the end recorded that the cause of the pensioner's death was spontaneous combustion.

In the Great Esoteric Reference, the phenomenon of spontaneous combustion (ignition) of people is described as follows:

“Combustion of people is the spontaneous combustion of people. Many unexplained cases of this phenomenon have been recorded, including near places of frequent UFO sightings.

For example, in October 1990, near the Blue Mountain, 40 km from the town of Zhirnovsk, Vologda Oblast (Russia), a shepherd suddenly burned down in the presence of his partner.

The mysterious selectivity of the flame enveloping the human body, but not affecting his clothes, as well as the strange submissiveness of the victims who are not trying to escape, are noted. It is believed that this is due to abrupt changes in the intensity of the natural magnetic field. The fire that occurs during the sudden spontaneous combustion of a person is a kind of molecular or chemical disintegration with the release of thermal energy. "

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

“Spontaneous human combustion (shc) is a rare phenomenon, often described as a paranormal phenomenon, as a result of which a person can ignite without an external source of fire visible.

The most detailed evidence of human spontaneous combustion begins to emerge from xviii century... In 1731, under mysterious circumstances, Countess Cornelia di Bandi died in the Italian city of Tsesena: her legs, dressed in stockings, and part of a skull were found in the bedroom.

In April 1744, in Ipswich (England), the daughter of a 60-year-old alcoholic, Grice Pet, found her father dead on the floor of the house: according to her, "he burned without fire, like a bundle of firewood." The old man's clothes were practically intact.

The first most reliable evidence of cases of human spontaneous combustion dates back to 1763, when the Frenchman John Dupont published a book with a collection of cases of human spontaneous combustion called "de incendiis corporis humani spontaneis."

In it, among other things, he mentions the case of Nicolas Millet, who was acquitted of the charge of murdering his wife when the court was convinced that she died as a result of spontaneous combustion. Millet's wife, a heavily drinking Parisian, was discovered at home with only a pile of ash, a skull and finger bones left of her. The straw mattress on which she was found was only slightly damaged.

Around 1853, in Columbus, Ohio, the owner of a liquor store, a German by birth, caught fire and was devoured in flames. This incident was mentioned by Charles Dickens in the introduction to the second edition of his novel Bleak House, in which he described a fictional case of human spontaneous combustion. In 1861, the literary critic and philosopher George Henry Lewis published his correspondence with Dickens, in which he accused the writer of spreading fables:

“These notes usually write that oily soot and some remnants of bones remain from the human body. Everyone knows that this cannot be. "

In 1870, a note "On Spontaneous Combustion" was published by the Associate Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. In it, he wrote that he found about 54 modern scientists who had ever written about human spontaneous combustion, of which 35 unequivocally expressed their opinion about this phenomenon.

Five (including Justus Liebig) argued that spontaneous combustion was impossible and that all documented cases were hoaxes.
Three (including Guillaume Dupuytren) believed that the cases of spontaneous combustion are real, but they have a different nature, namely: there was some kind of external source of fire.
Twenty-seven scientists (including Deverji and Orfil) insisted that spontaneous combustion of the human body is quite possible.

Attitude of science

Human spontaneous combustion is the subject of numerous rumors and controversies. There is still no evidence of the existence of this phenomenon, and its very possibility is today rejected by most scientists.
There are two main hypotheses explaining cases of human spontaneous combustion, and both imply an external source of fire: this is the Human Candle hypothesis and ignition from static electricity or ball lightning.

Although, from a chemical point of view, the human body contains enough energy stored in the form of fatty deposits, under normal circumstances a person cannot ignite spontaneously due to the high water content (about 70%), which takes too much energy to evaporate.

Characteristics of spontaneous combustion cases:

All cases that are commonly referred to as human spontaneous combustion have a number of distinctive characteristics:

The victim's body ignites with no visible external source of fire.

During spontaneous combustion, the human body burns much more thoroughly than during ordinary ignition. The injuries, however, are unevenly distributed throughout the body: sometimes a whole skull and, less often, limbs remain.

Most cases of human spontaneous combustion occur indoors, although this may only be due to an incomplete sample of cases of spontaneous combustion.

The combustion temperature of the body in case of spontaneous combustion is much higher than that used in crematoria. In order for human bones to turn to ash, a temperature above 1700 ° C is required, while in crematoria a temperature of about 1100 ° C is used, and for the complete combustion of a corpse, it is necessary to crush bones. Even if a person's body is doused with gasoline and set on fire, it will not be able to burn completely: the fire will stop immediately after the liquid fuel runs out: the human body contains too much water, which will extinguish the flame.

During spontaneous combustion, the flames are very small, but exposure to hot air can damage nearby objects: for example, the TV screen may burst.

Men are more likely to be presumed victims of spontaneous combustion than women.
In most cases, the presumed victims are the elderly.
The alleged victims don't feel like they're on fire. In some cases, it was found that the victims were dying of heart attacks. "

Vladimir.

The phenomenon of "spontaneous combustion" is extremely rare in our life, but it does happen. It is connected with inadequate reactions of the cells of the physical body to cosmic energies.

Changes occur in some of the cells gradually, the process is not one day. The physical body does not react to these changes. The atomic structure is changing. The process is no longer controlled by either the mind or the Soul.

In this case, in the end, there is a reaction like a nuclear explosion in a cell, with the release of a huge amount of light, heat and energy.

Often, with lightning speed, the human body turns to ash, for no apparent reason. Moreover, it is not uncommon for the clothes of a person who instantly flared up and burned to remain intact and intact.
The process takes place so quickly that a synthetic material, for example, does not have time to be damaged.

I will say right away that spontaneous combustion has nothing to do with ascension. And it is also not connected with any diseases of the physical body. Then what is it?

This is the development of one of the experiences of the transition to the Subtle World. Naturally, all this happens with the permission of a person's Soul, usually when bodily life comes to an end. Such an option is embedded in the implementation contract at the stage of preparation for implementation.

What is special about this type of care?

With instant combustion, with the formation of ash from the body, the Soul quickly goes into the higher Thin layers. There is no connecting link (dead body) that temporarily holds the Soul in near-earth space.
The energy released by such a fire helps to make the "leap".

As a rule, the Souls who made the transition in this way will no longer incarnate on Earth. But, I repeat, this is a very rare transition path.

This option is not universally applicable. This is due to the fact that our task is to transform bodies, not to burn them. The experience of transformation is more important!

In conclusion, I want to say the following. Experiments of transition as a result of spontaneous combustion of a physical body are practically over in the 21st century. It's just that this experience is no longer in demand, since now there is a massive transformation of bodies.

With Love, Vladimir.