21 Grams · Music
21 Grams
In 1902, MacDougall weighed six dying patients as an attempt at psychostasy. He wanted to prove that the soul was material and measurable - the difference in weight between living and dead patients averaged 21 grams (between 8 and 35 g), according to his data. A report on this investigation appeared in the New York Times in March 1907, as well as two reports in the same year in the medical journal American Medicine.
MacDougall continued to poison fifteen dogs and noted no weight loss during their deaths, from which he concluded that dogs possessed no soul. Later, he also attempted to identify the human soul as a "shadow image" on X-ray images.
The music for 21 Grams was composed at Hammerstrasse 20, in the house of Franziska and Bruno Mancia. In reference to the Rolling Stones record cover "Sticky Fingers", a broken and a new studio trolley from the photo studio of Mancia-Bodmer (FBM-STUDIO) were photographed for the record cover.
Released 2015
