The tiktok prank videos are about to get hotter

Wind and solar energy is no longer used because it’s cheaper to just work poor people to death and then use their burning corpses to run a generator.

The orphan crushing machine is now a power plant.

The entire cremation industry collapses overnight.

Isn’t this just the plot of Death Stranding?

We would need crazy fire codes in palative care. Also feel bad for firefighters, and murders are going to be real hard to solve.

I wanna go Dr. Who regeneration style. Supernova bright light that can be seen for miles.

I’m carrying marshmallows everywhere I go, in hope

Short crematorium stocks, do it now!!!

I think I’ve seen two different anime series like that

Well, I guess it was more spontaneous combustion resulting in death instead of death resulting in combustion.

I think it would be cooler than funerals.

I think it would be hotter funerals.

An industry develops, especially in poor societies and those without a good justice system where people of imminent death are kept (brain-)“alive” in a coma, and get sold as burning material for industry (factories and various production), engines like for big ships, and booby-traps in conflict zones.

I’m assuming this is some biological phenomenon and not straight-up magic, in which case we’d eventually find a way to identify and suppress it. Or harness the chemistry in some way.

Also, given that it’s biological, there will be some people - how ever small a fraction - who don’t combust upon brain death. Those people will cause all sorts of problems because we won’t be sure if they’re dead or not, at least not until they start to decompose.

Carrying marshmallows at all times becomes commonplace.

Hospitals would be incredibly dangerous

If it happens to everyone, “society” will get used to it after about 3 weeks.
No fundamental changes.