Can you escape being buried alive

Do they have to embalm in the UK? Or have to do all of what you just said in the UK? If you can then how common is it? Taphephobia…even the thought sends chills up my spine. I have been seeing a therapist, she assures me that no one would ever do this to me but I cant help it… I just feel like i wear the horror of it on my face and that someone might just conspire against me and curse my fleeting final moments with the torment of being Buried Alive. I make sure i am kind and humble to others because i fear that some one could and would do this to me.

The paranoia is severe and honestly, I feel this has happen to me in a past life. I really hope that one day i am free from the intrusive thoughts and night terrors before I am inevitably put there for eternity…. Thank you for the article and Im sorry for the personal rant. But something occurred to me as I was reading this, the author said use the cell phone if your family happen to bury you with it.

Things to possibly include could be: a cell phone, spare battery s or a portable cordless phone charger many have stored energy that depletes after you plug the phone in , an axe to break the coffin, an oxygen tank, a collapsible ladder, etc.

Pretty morbid to think about but could literally save your life in case this horror situation happens. Ring The Bell!

This kind of knowledge is for when you piss off the wrong person and wind up 6 feet under. Then why would you call for help if you managed to get above ground? So the murderers can come back to shove you back under? This is just a joke and should not be taken seriously all tho it might work. These comments gave me cancer. Seriously, get a life and stop worrying about shlt that wont happen to you. The writer of this obviously has more time on their hands than you could shake a shltty stick at.

Thanks god I am a Hindu….. And 99 percent of Hindus cremate their dead…. No chance to get buried alive…. Proud and feeling safe to be a Hindu…. A fun read for those not able to extract fact from fiction. Firstly, the article is fiction.

It would be impossible for a person to extract themselves from a coffin buried under six feet of normal soil. I am writing this under the assumption that your living body was simply dropped into a cheap pine coffin and buried six feet deep—no autopsy and no attempt to preserve the body were performed.

Then you may go to 15 hours. It would continue to fall even if you did nothing. Dirt is naturally self compacting. Soon you would not be able to inhale as the pressure surrounding your chest would prevent movement. There are additional salient point here that would place an additional burden on any attempt to extract your self from six feet under dirt, but the above makes escape so highly unlikely the remaining points do not need to be delineated.

If the author is so convinced that his article is the real deal, I challenge him to attempt it. Look here for a Myth busters challenge. Mythbusters attempted something like this recently, and even with a breathing mask, it was impossible to 1 — break out of a coffin with hundreds of pounds of dirt on top of you, and 2 — even if you somehow managed to break out of the coffin, the weight of the dirt above you would almost certainly crush you.

They even tried it by having the person start out in a squatting position to eliminate the problems with maneuvering your body into a vertical position to push up through the dirt. In short, its all but impossible at feet. Well, if you get buried alive than you should stay calm and just ask god to forgive you of your sins and that you belive he died for you. Just ask god to save you from sin. Just in case you dont get out so that you have a chance to be with jesus.

Last night I watched the movie Buried. I can only imagine the sheer horror of actually being in that situation. Because if you are buried alive you are Also its pretty guaranteed that no one has a clue where you could be to even begin searching for you.

Whoever put you there wanted you dead so youre probably remotely buried, with no civilization for miles. With such a lack of oxygen every little movement you make just brings you closer to death, so trying to fight your way out is pretty pointless.

No matter how you look at it its just a horrible way to go. What if someone intentionally bury me alive? Oh wellll. Even a cheap coffin would be hard to break considering how little space you have, and if you did break it, the dirt pouring in would make it impossible for you to get out. The average human cannot stab themselves in the neck, let alone rip their own veins open with their teeth.

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If a heroic rescue seems unlikely, start planning your own great escape. Safeguard yourself by pulling your shirt over your head and tying a knot at the top to create a makeshift mask. The cloth layer will help you breathe by stopping dirt and debris from falling into your nose and mouth. But a costume change inside a confined space is easier said than done. This necessary precaution will take some skillful maneuvering.

As the soil rushes in, push it to the sides and below your feet so you can slowly start to sit up. Continue to burrow your way upward until you can stand and break through the surface.

This might work if the dirt is dry and loosely packed. But soil is even heavier than snow, so the sheer pressure from above may make it impossible for your lungs to expand. Swimming with whales has been described as one of the most breathtaking experiences on Earth, and today you get to try it out! As you get so close to the majestic beasts Scroll down to watch our video.

But the tide starts to pick up, a colossal wave violently crashes If you find yourself going into a freefall inside a metal tube hurtling through the clouds at hundreds of kilometers per hour, and an oxygen mask drops down right in The smaller you are, the longer you'll survive, because you take up less space, which means more room for oxygen. The moment your oxygen supply is gone spells the end. Swimmers or marathon runners with excellent lung capacity might gain an extra minute by holding their breaths.

Let's say the average casket measures 84 by 28 by 23 inches , so its total volume is We'll use that as the internal volume too, to give you a few extra minutes of life.

And the average volume of a human body is 66 liters. That leaves liters of air, one-fifth of which liters is oxygen.

If a trapped person consumes 0. Once you're in there, you're in there," says Alan R. A living newborn was exhumed in China in after doctors questioned the decision of the parent to bury their child after assuming it dead. A 3-year-old boy was rescued from his burial during the Irish potato famine after a gravedigger struck his legs , causing him to cry out in pain.

In , an American woman was saved from premature burial after her sister asked to open the coffin to see her one last time. If it happens to you, these are your best chances — hope that someone on the surface intervenes in some way. If, like any irrational human being, you're terrified of this grisly fate happening to you, there are always a few things you can do to help you out.

Having a few tools could be really useful while you're down there, right? Well, it can never hurt to throw a clause into your will demanding that you're buried with a few choice items. Take some advice from the preppers : You can't go wrong with a phone, knife, flashlight, and multitool, and perhaps a small shovel. You probably won't need whatever a tactical pen is, but it definitely can't hurt to have. And you can just ignore the strange looks and jeers that you're going to get from your friends and family when you ask for all this.

When you dig yourself out of your own grave, you'll be the one laughing — probably maniacally. But let's say you are scared enough of premature burial to warrant actually taking precautions to prevent it happening. You're going to want to do it in the most spectacular, downright ridiculous way you possibly can, right?

Of course you are. Well, that's where the safety coffin comes in. The concept is simple: Each coffin is specifically designed to allow the buried to call for help if they regain consciousness after burial.

A couple of them include bells placed aboveground so you can ring your way to safety if the worst should happen. Another allows the "deceased" to hit a signal device with their head to set off a signal or flag above ground, while a third, more modern version allows you to do the same with the simple push of a button.

Invest in one of these and you'll rest easy for the rest of your life — and beyond. Stop freaking out! Have a feel around Shutterstock. Tap tap tap Shutterstock.

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