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Would it be possible to dig yourself out?
Just been watching QI. The question is if you and a spade were buried in a coffin with 6ft of eath above you, would escape be possible - and if so, how would you go about it?
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Not if the lid was on....
and if not, I guess not, the soil would fall in on you as you scraped.
This was actually a serious nightmare of my grandma's, she used to really scare me with stories about people buried alive by mistake, when they were dug up (why, I now ask?!) there were nail scratch marks inside the lid of the coffin.....
and if not, I guess not, the soil would fall in on you as you scraped.
This was actually a serious nightmare of my grandma's, she used to really scare me with stories about people buried alive by mistake, when they were dug up (why, I now ask?!) there were nail scratch marks inside the lid of the coffin.....
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Then... for goodness sakes, don't read Poe's (Edgar Allen) "Premature Burial"...
That fate was such a concern in the 17th Century that several sayings we recognize today are attributed to the fear, such as: Saved by the bell, Dead ringer and Graveyard shift, the genesis of which are described here:
When England began to run out of room to bury recently deceased people, they dug up the coffins of people who had long been deceased, removing their bones from the coffins and placing them in a bone house and re-using the gravesite.
When opening the coffins of long ago buried bodies, they noticed that 1 out of every 25 coffins had scratch marks on the inside. The town folks had been burying people while they were still alive.
To avoid anymore people being buring alive, a string would be tied to the wrist of each corpse, threaded through the coffin,up through the ground, and tied to a bell.
Someone would have to sit in the graveyard all night and listen for the bell to ring, just in case the corpse was not really a corpse.
To avoid anymore people being buring alive, a string would be tied to the wrist of each corpse, threaded through the coffin,up through the ground, and tied to a bell.
Someone would have to sit in the graveyard all night and listen for the bell to ring, just in case the corpse was not really a corpse.
That fate was such a concern in the 17th Century that several sayings we recognize today are attributed to the fear, such as: Saved by the bell, Dead ringer and Graveyard shift, the genesis of which are described here:
When England began to run out of room to bury recently deceased people, they dug up the coffins of people who had long been deceased, removing their bones from the coffins and placing them in a bone house and re-using the gravesite.
When opening the coffins of long ago buried bodies, they noticed that 1 out of every 25 coffins had scratch marks on the inside. The town folks had been burying people while they were still alive.
To avoid anymore people being buring alive, a string would be tied to the wrist of each corpse, threaded through the coffin,up through the ground, and tied to a bell.
Someone would have to sit in the graveyard all night and listen for the bell to ring, just in case the corpse was not really a corpse.
To avoid anymore people being buring alive, a string would be tied to the wrist of each corpse, threaded through the coffin,up through the ground, and tied to a bell.
Someone would have to sit in the graveyard all night and listen for the bell to ring, just in case the corpse was not really a corpse.
Found it now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_coffin
In Victorian times bells were put into coffins just in case the deceased wasn't actually deceased,. and yes it is all very Edgar Allen Poe and hence, absolutely horrendous - but it got me thinking about the actual logistics of it. Would someone be able to get out? Someone on the programme said they'd break the side of the coffin rather than the top to prevent the earth above falling on them, but I can't actually see what difference that would make. You will still be under 6 feet of earth with no air.
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