KNOCK KNOCK. Who’s there? A live person in a coffin brought in to be cremated.

I found the video and linked it

literally a dead ringer

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I found the video and linked it

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Thankfully that was not graphic.. was nervous to click on it.

I'm glad they noticed before cremating her. Although considering how near to happening it was, I do wonder how many other people weren't quite dead yet before getting burnt.

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KNOCK KNOCK. Who’s there? A live person in a coffin brought in to be cremated.

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Fantastic job on the thread title, Tangerine.

This was pretty common 200-300 years ago.

In fact our founding father George Washington was completely paranoid and freaked out about being buried alive because of the number of coffins that, when brought up, found scratching on the insides from people who were buried alive and were clawing to get out.

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New England Historical Society

When Fears of Premature Burial Stalked the Land

George Washington famously feared premature burial. While on his deathbed in 1799, he instructed his personal secretary Tobias Lear to make sure he was dead before he was buried:

“Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.”

Washington ushered in an era of taphophobia, or fear of premature burial. During the 19th century, popular books and magazines promoted the idea that many people were buried alive. They reported tales of bloody shrouds, gnawed fingers and horribly contorted bodies inside their coffins.

During the 19th century a man named C.A. Read of Newton, Mass., left in his will $500 for his physician to cut off his head. The reason? To prevent the horror of a premature burial.

During the 1800s, doctors had few ways to certify death short of waiting for a body to decay. “Less than 150 years ago many medical practitioners freely admitted to being uncertain whether their patients were dead or alive,” wrote Jan Bondeson in Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear.
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The fear of premature burial peaked in the mid-19th century, wrote Bondesen. It centered in Massachusetts and New Jersey. In Boston, publishers churned out books and stories of children restored to life after apparently drowning, women giving birth in their coffins and bodies exhumed with signs of struggle to escape their graves.

People began to invent devices to counter their possible premature burial. Inventors won patents for safety or security coffins.

One inventor won a patent for a safety coffin that allowed the buried person to move feathers or ring a bell to notify above-grounders of his premature burial. Another patented coffin featured an air tube and a signal device that sent up a red flag when hit with the head of the prematurely buried victim.

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I do wonder how many other people weren't quite dead yet before getting burnt.

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i can almost guarantee you that these types of things, along with people being buried alive, happens a lot in the non-Western world.

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the brother said his sister had been bedridden for about two years, when her health deteriorated and she became unresponsive, appearing to stop breathing two days ago

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Monty Python jokes incoming