Talk:Thích Quảng Đức

There's a photo of this happening that had some pretty serious polical consequences. Aside from the copyrights, as it depicts a person burning to death it might be considered offensive.

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The article states: "cremate his heart only resulted in it remaining intact". I assume remaining intact is unusal but does this defy scientific understanding? Would this be considered a miracle? If so, perhaps this statement should be qualified as a claim. WpZurp 02:12, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've yet to come across any sources investigating why his heart only shrank in size but otherwise remained intact from the cremation, most probably because no one bothered to examine it. The heart remaining intact is considered to be unusual since cremation facilities are usually more than adequate at melting even bone, but something about the heart may have allowed it to survive relatively unscathed, in a chemical sense.

To the Buddhist community, yeah, its considered a miracle, since apparently they've seen this sort of thing before. Perhaps we should note this in the article, that the Heart doesn't seemed to have been examined before scientifically, and is claimed by the Buddhists as holy. CABAL 11:16, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)