Death Bed

''Once upon a time, a certain docter in a faraway country carried out an experiment. The doctor specially rigged the beds of termanial patiens, in a attempt to measure any difference in body weight at the exact momment of death.''

''The doctor believed that if a spirit or soul exusted then it must have mass and therefore weight. if that was true then at the very momment of death, the corpse on the bed would have to become lighter as the spirit left the body.''

''Just as many docters test new treatment on animals nefore using them on humans,so too did this doctor perform his experiments on rats and rabbits, and sometimes dog and cats, before he tried them on human subjects. Of course he did not wait for these animals to die of natural causes. He killed them by injecting a potent poisen into there bodies. He carried out nearly fifty of his animal experiments. However However he did not get the results he expected. He came to the conclusion that animals do not have souls like humans, or that the souls were so small that his experiment could not effectivly measure the weight loss.''

''The docter concluded that he needed to use hmans and he commenced his experiments. His first subject was an old women, eighty years of age, with no living relatives. Given a bleak outlook for her survival the old women was laid on the bed with the doctors special scale. The doctor instructed his assistant and nurses that they were in no way try to extend the womens life''

''The doctor predicted that the women had one day or two at the most, before she would pass away, but three days four days, a week passed but she did not die. On th contrary she seemed to be getting better a little bit at the time.''

''The doctor, irritated wondered how long she planned on living. The next morning, when the doctors assistant reported for work, the doctor greeted him with a smile on his fac. It seemed that the old women, who had appeared to be making a recovery, passedaway late in the night, after the nurses and assistant had gone home.. The only one in the office was the doctor who had not left the womens side.''

''Over the course of the next several years, the doctor performed his experiments on dozens of patients. Besides a very small number of exceptations, most of the pepl showed a clear ecrease in body wight. The doctor found somthing else, even more intesting.''

''The decrease in weight at the exact momment of death vsaried. The smallest he measured was 5 grams; the average was 10 grams; there were some who lost over 20 grams; and even a few who lost early 30 grams., the loss in weight was unrelated to the physical body weight of the person in life. What, then did it mean? ''

After much speculation the docter came to his conclusion: the more regrets or attachments the person had in life, the greater there loss in weight at death.

A mother who lft a young child behind.

A man who died with a deep hatred towards anouther person.

A young person who had decided to devote his life to music, but died before he could make it big.

A husband poisoned to death by his wife to get money.

A man falsely accused of a crime wo died while trying to prove his innocence.

A wife who was beatend daily and finally killed by her husband.

But the thing is, most of the patients died when the nurses or assistant were not around and each time the assistant noticed a little bit of the poisen had less each time a person had died.

The assistant was sure that the doctor was killing them.

''But no one knows weither or not the assistant had told the doctor he knew what was going on, for several days later, the assistant himself passed away on that special bed. The cause of death was said to be a heart attack. At the moment of his death, the assistants weight dropped by 168 grams. It was a new record for the doctor.'

''And thus he experiments carried on for several more years, until the doctor contracted a mental illness and passed away. There is no record of the amount of weight that he lost at the moment of death.''

This story is inspired by (stolen from) Ju-on the novel by Key Ohishi