Being Buried Alive

[Tilly2]

I noticed in one of the posts this week, than Gness had said her greatest fear was 'being buried alive'.

Is this less and less likely to happen in this day and age?

It is also my greatest fear, having read 'Premature Burial' by Edgar Allen Poe.

[shoota]

Yes - everybody's being burnt alive instead.....

[Tilly2]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Shoota!

[shoota]

Sorry Till :-(

[sherrardk]

Maybe they should bring back the bells by graves and the 'graveyard shift'?

[gness]

Don't suppose my mobile would work....if it was charged and I could find it for a change?

[Tilly2]

Seriously, are the chances of being mistakenly 'diagnosed' as dead, less now, than previously?

[Psybbo]

Cremation is the answer

[237SJ]

I remembe when my cousin came to stay with me when we were 14 and we used to stay up late at night, watching horror movies and scaring ourselves. There was a movie about someone with Catalepsy who was buried alive - it was only fiction but it scared us stiff.

[boxtops]

It was something which terrified my grandmother - the Victorians seemed to havea ghoulish delight in these things. She used to tell me tales of people who'd been buried alive and tried to scratch their way out :-(

At least with being cremated, there is no way back if you were in some sort of coma.....

[Tilly2]

So Psybbo, burned alive, rater than buried. Just as Shoota says?

[bibblebub]

Buried is a good film from 3 years ago that gives you an idea as to what it might be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84CBBjlu-kk

[shoota]

Told you!

[Psybbo]

Gawd, shoota is beginning to annoy me big time, time to get the badger t-shirt out

[shoota]

Seriously (honestly...) I think that the palaver a body has to go through with undertakers/PM's/Coroners officers these days it would be impossible for anyone to slip through whilst still alive.

[shoota]

Moi?
Wot I done?

[Tilly2]

Bibble, I could not watch that!

[Sparkles62]

My Mum was buried alive, and dug out as a child, when her house was bombed during the war.
She says that she is NEVER going to be buried again, has told us all, ready for when something happens to her.
She has even gone as far as leaving strict insructions that she must not be buried with her solicitor.

[bibblebub]

The film that 237SJ mentions is probably the Roger Corman film Premature Burial starring Ray Milland
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056368/reference#comment

[Tilly2]

Sparkles, you need to re-write your last sentence :-)

[gness]

Oh, Sparkles!!! That's a cracker!!!...☺☺☺