Spontaneous Human Combustion Support Group

Do you know anyone who has burst into flames? Have you yourself suddenly ignited without warning? If so, then chances are you could use some counseling and/or moral support.

Believe it or not, scanning your local yellow pages for a spontaneous human combustion support group will not yield many results. Trolling the internet is equally frustrating. So what can the victims and survivors of spontaneous human combustion (SHC) do? Who will assuage fears that they will combust again? A support group and only a support group will suffice. So get one going in your community today!

I first became interested in the phenomenon of human combustion in the 1980s while watching the film "This is Spinal Tap". Two of the band's drummers, Peter Bond and Mick Shrimpton, both died (in separate incidents) of self combustion. Later in college, while working as a columnist for the campus newspaper, I watched a program on the Discovery Channel which further piqued my interest in this strange affliction.

On October 2, 1996, I wrote the following:

"All over the world there are reports of
individuals with large build-ups of internal methane who
became cinder piles from the inside out. One such case was a
man in France who started to burn at the dinner table.
Flames shot from his stomach which prompted his daughter to
put down her croissant and call the fire department. When
the firefighters arrived, the man was dead but still ablaze
so they thrust a fire hose into his open stomach and put him
out."

Since then, I have devoted my life to thinking about human combustion. That's why I feel comfortable advising people how to start their own SHC support group.