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The same mechanism Lewis Pugh uses to magically warm up his body just by thought alone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Pugh And if you read the 1988 original posting of the story, she says at the beginning that the story is true.

Exactly which is why I want to know if it's true BTW, the original story comes from a 1988 edition of a book called the people's Speakbook Van Ekeren, Glenn. The Speaker's Sourcebook.

*Used to. Sick of articles like that one.

It was a question, and I'm confused because people say metabolism would instantly stop at say 60 C but you have cases where people apparently self-combusted, and there was the case of a survivor on the Science Channel a few years back. It would take a temperature of about 500-700 C in order to ignite the skin in a local area.

Why not? And people have survived this including a man named Frank Baker, and also baby Rahul in India. They were most certainly alive when they were lit on fire by internal means. Something to do with the skin cells, apparently.

Question inspired by the second picture from this article http://thugviral.com/20-scary-photos-that-are-real-but-you-will-wish-they-werent/

For some reason this pops up on DailyMail every couple months or so. And it's different people, but it's always exactly the same, they cannot touch or even take a sip of even distilled water but are fine with drinking cola etc.

If the brain is convinced the body will freeze to death, it is said the person will become hypothermic and would die, because the brain is convinced of it. (Nocebo effect is well known to scientists and fully accepted) there was a case of a man misdiagnosed with cancer and he died months later of cancer like symptoms. look up 'voodoo death' on Wikipedia. it mentions that case. also a man believed sugar pills were real pills. he overdosed on them trying to kill himself. his blood pressure went very low even though the pills were harmless and needed medical attention. This case was mentioned in the Smithsonian Magazine ''Beware the Nocebo effect'' and Smithsonian is a reputable scientific source. There is also the famous story of Nick Sitzman who froze to death in a warm room because he imagined being cold. The nocebo effect is well known and I know we can't really test for this since dead people cannot tell us their dream but I am curious.

This question came into my mind after I watched some documentary that showcased bizarre deaths in history. Some well known and others not so well known. One involved the 16th(I think?) Century murder. These guys broke into a house during the night and seized a man from his bed and took him to a cellar. There they tied him down and used awls to open veins then they sucked the blood until the guy died. I figured the context I mentioned was important because I know it'd hurt a lot to die of blood loss from a gunshot wound for instance. In this instance I don't think there should be much pain, I'm assuming it's just feeling sleepy and passing out? Or am I wrong?

Exactly. She has the skin reaction too, but true cases of AU (which is actually a reaction to water-soluble antigens on the skin, and not H2O) do not effect drinking. All the cases of 'water allergy' in the news contradict the symptoms of AU in that they cannot drink water also without their throat closing up and a single drop of rain can send them to the hospital.

Would a person live long if the mast cells somehow trained to fire upon exposure to H2O molecules? This woman says she cannot even drink a sip of water without needing an Epi-pen injected into her yet in her pictures she is not hooked up to a bed being IV'd adrenaline and looks quite alive.

If you read the Snopes article, it says the autopsy concluded he had frozen to death. None of the messages he left mentioned anything about feeling breathless.

I came across the story of Nick SItzman, and nobody knows if it's true or if it's false, so I am curious. Man dies of hypothermia in unplugged freezer http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/freezer.asp

Why is pneumonia more common during colder months? Could some pneumonia cases be caused by cold air inflaming the lungs and not an infection? This scientific report (from Page on ncbi.gov) says there is a higher incidence (+15%) in cold months. The article implies that cold air can cause pneumonia. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24989619