burried alive

[kopend]

is it true that some people have been burried when still alive and later scratch marks have been found on the inside of the coffin lid. and if so when was the last recorded case of this happening.

[mrs_overall]

I'm sure that someone somewhere will have been buried alive...try googling. The Victorians used to be paranoid about being buried alive which is one of the reasons the bodies were laid out in the parlour (and literally rotted in front of the family.) The richer Victorians had elaborate coffins with bells attached to the lid so any movement from the 'deceased' would cause the bell to ring. In the western world I doubt anyone could be buried alive by accident. Death has to be certified by a doctor and the undertakers are supposed to perform certain tests for death before embalming. Decomposition sets in pretty quickly in a corpse ( in the abdomen near the appendix) and rigor mortice also sets in soon after death.
Have you been reading too many horror stories?

[Haggisdj]

Who would find the scratches, considering the coffin is six feet down and sealed???

[4getmenot]

as the saying 'saved by the bell' goes

[Ethel]

Angelo Hays was buried after a motorcycle accident in France in 1937.

The insurance company were unhappy for some reason and insisted on his exhumation several days later. He was found to be alive, but deeply unconscious. He made a full recovery.

A German woman woke up in a coffin after a traffic accident, having been pronounced dead.

There have been many such incidents so it is highly likely that people have been buried or cremated whilst in a deep coma.

Embalming is not routine, and is not necessary these days, unless the funeral is delayed for any reason.

The Irish newspapers reported the arrest of a naked man, Peter Archer running down the street in 1996. He was let off when he explained he had been fleeing from a morturary, having officially been pronounced dead.

[Ethel]

Haggis - the grave robbers who dug up the recently deceased so they could sell the bodies to medical science reported seeing vomit and scratches on the inside of the coffin

[CheekyChops]

Also we were much less medically advanced in those days than we are nowadays and doctors wouldn't have had access to the sophisticated equipment that is used these days to dermine whether someone is actually dead or in a coma.

[mrs_overall]

Ethel...I have to contradict you on your comment that embalming is not routine and is not necessary.
Many of my relatives work in our family funeral business., started by my great grandad.More and more people now want to view their loved ones and believe me, if the deceased are not embalmed the family are in for a shock. Decomposition starts immediately after death and being blunt, a corpse can be pretty whiffy within 24 hours. I don't know what you mean by a 'delay' with a funeral. Where our business is based the time lapse between a straightforward death and the funeral is usually 6-8 days. Trust me, you wouldn't want to loiter around an unembalmed corpse after that length of time.

[bird_81]

http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1176004080/W oman_Gets_Accidentally_Buried_Alive_by_her_Fam ily

[Ethel]

I am not long retired from my own funeral business, also a long established family company.

And with proper chilled storage I still say that embalming (now called hygiene treatment - true embalming is now very rare) is not usually necessary. And the bodies can still be viewed.

[mrknowall]

Im gonna leave a note saying place fully charged mobile next to my body.

[chazza]

I remember watching an interview on "Richard and Judy" a few years back about a man that woke up halfway through his own post mortem!

[Joe_the_Lion]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_being_bur ied_alive

Above just for interest.

Edgar Allen Poe had a morbid fear of being buried alive. It is believed the phobia consumed him so much, it actually contributed to his own madness and drug addiction.

[~max~]

Oh god, Chazza! Imagine the poor forensics doctor!!! I know they've seen it all, but they can't be prepared for a "patient" suddenly waking up on the table!
I think I'd probably have a heart attack myself! :-(

[redhead23]

i tell you what you will find very intersting to google and i think u should all do it is type in the chase vaults --- made me shiver check it out and let me know wat u think

[HarrietParks]

Did anyone see a documentary about a lady living in Australia suffering from narcolepsy, who has woken in the mortuary 3 times? Her son, when younger had tried to tell the paramedics his mother wasn't dead, but was ignored. Her vital signs were so faint, her heart beat and pulse were indistinguishable, that doctors pronounced her dead. She lives in fear of actually being buried alive. She wears a bracelet which requests hospital emergency departments attach a heart and pulse monitor on any of her admissions.

[joko]

in the days when people weren't able to tell other than by looking it happened a lot - comas, paralysis etc, were misunderstood and the person was considered dead.

it is also something that contributes to the myth of vampires and zombies - people finding the scratches and believing they are the living dead.

many people used to request they be beheaded before burial - just to be sure.

i wonder if the wake is socalled because its the time to wait for them to wake if they are going to...?

[ne2]

My Great Grandmother woke up in her coffin. It was open in the parlour for people to pay their respect's. She'd been pronounced dead but had been in a coma of sorts. After that shock she demanded her wrist's be cut right after her death just in case! My Gran and all her daughter's developed a morbid fear of death and coffin's after that.

[bigmamma]

omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ne2]

True bigmamma, I remember my Gran saying how her Mum's arm suddenly moved then she groaned and tried to sit up! It must have been horrific for my Gt Gran to come to in a coffin and a massive shock for the family as well.

[knobbynonuts]

doubt if you would get a signal 6 foot under mrknowall a better idea is to take two cola tins and tie a piece of 6 foot string in them and get buired with one of them and leave the other one on your toomstone....