okay I've heard about spontaneous combustion, but can people seriously just burst into flames like that? like it doesn't make sense for our bodies to have any ignition that would cause that
I'm willing to bet that it's just ignition via foreign-object that morticians and brown townysts couldn't figure out.There's not a single reaction in the human body that's exothermic enough to light you on fire. What's far more likely is that the forensics experts are somewhat limited in how they can determine the cause of fires. Fire/arson investigation is actually pretty entrenched in a bunch of non-scientific practices that don't accurately explain how a fire started.http://www.firescientist.com/Documents/The%20Mythology%20of%20Arson%20Investigation.pdf
guess we'll never know who started the fire
we'll just have to accept that it was always burning
if i had to date it, since the world began turning