This article is almost as unexpected as waking up in your own coffin. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it, and the prospect of being buried alive is, indeed, horrifying. Poe was a writer far ahead of his time.
I think it’s probably appeared (as an apparition?) due to being Halloween.
Leejon 0
6 months ago
I would recommend embalming, you will definitely be dead afterwards.
Chris Wigital
6 months ago
I’ll take a cremation, please.
Rainer Schlötterer
6 months ago
Reminds me of Beck Weathers and his near-death experience on Everest. He was considered dead but the rising sun on the next morning defrosted and woke him up again.
Allison Barrows
6 months ago
I enjoyed this wonderfully-written spook story on today’s Halloween. Mr. Poots has a light and lovely gift for creating a confection of such a scary scenario. A treat indeed!
Simon Neale
6 months ago
He is haunted by the prospect that one of these fits will overcome him while he is away from those aware of his condition. It would only be a matter of time before some officious bystander had him boxed-up and buried.
A discreet but striking tattoo would have had everything sorted.
Derek Smith
6 months ago
This reminds me of a very funny sketch involving Bob Newhart, where he plays a psychiatrist trying to help a client who has a fear of being buried alive in a box.
net mag
6 months ago
Appropriate that I read this on Oct 31.
Cremation, of course, deals with this risk quite effectively.
Yes but which is worse being buried alive or burnt alive? When asked which I would prefer (cremation or burial). I reply I don’t mind which as long as I am definitely dead.
Last edited 6 months ago by Aphrodite Rises
Right-Wing Hippie
6 months ago
People are still being buried alive
An ancient and venerable tradition which I’m doing my part to maintain.
Phil Mac
6 months ago
Doesn’t anyone have a tradition of opening some arteries upon pronouncement of death? Ideally with a doctor on hand should the subject turn out to be alive.
Andrew Thompson
6 months ago
Pit and mining collapses…oh can you only imagine the terror?
Betsy Warrior
6 months ago
“Are people still being buried alive?” Of course they are, by the thousands underneath the wreckage and rubble of massive concrete apartment blocks in Gaza. Though they cry and scream for help no one can hear them or get near them amid the blasts of exploding bombs. It might take days to die or hours before they suffocate or bleed out. Maybe their chests are pierced by iron T Bars or their limbs crushed by Lally colums. Young or old, female or male, healthy or halt, brilliant or slow they probably all feel the same horror, hopelessness and pain. In Afghanistan as well after the earth opened up and houses and people fell in there was no one there but a cruel Taliban in a country destroyed by years of war. But earthquakes are an act of nature while bombs are an act of man.
Also those buried in the tunnels who are very much alive until it happens. Perhaps that is why thetunnels are inter-linked, although that may not be the case now.
This article is almost as unexpected as waking up in your own coffin. Nonetheless, I enjoyed it, and the prospect of being buried alive is, indeed, horrifying. Poe was a writer far ahead of his time.
I think it’s probably appeared (as an apparition?) due to being Halloween.
I would recommend embalming, you will definitely be dead afterwards.
I’ll take a cremation, please.
Reminds me of Beck Weathers and his near-death experience on Everest. He was considered dead but the rising sun on the next morning defrosted and woke him up again.
I enjoyed this wonderfully-written spook story on today’s Halloween. Mr. Poots has a light and lovely gift for creating a confection of such a scary scenario. A treat indeed!
A discreet but striking tattoo would have had everything sorted.
This reminds me of a very funny sketch involving Bob Newhart, where he plays a psychiatrist trying to help a client who has a fear of being buried alive in a box.
Appropriate that I read this on Oct 31.
Cremation, of course, deals with this risk quite effectively.
Yes but which is worse being buried alive or burnt alive? When asked which I would prefer (cremation or burial). I reply I don’t mind which as long as I am definitely dead.
People are still being buried alive
An ancient and venerable tradition which I’m doing my part to maintain.
Doesn’t anyone have a tradition of opening some arteries upon pronouncement of death? Ideally with a doctor on hand should the subject turn out to be alive.
Pit and mining collapses…oh can you only imagine the terror?
“Are people still being buried alive?” Of course they are, by the thousands underneath the wreckage and rubble of massive concrete apartment blocks in Gaza. Though they cry and scream for help no one can hear them or get near them amid the blasts of exploding bombs. It might take days to die or hours before they suffocate or bleed out. Maybe their chests are pierced by iron T Bars or their limbs crushed by Lally colums. Young or old, female or male, healthy or halt, brilliant or slow they probably all feel the same horror, hopelessness and pain. In Afghanistan as well after the earth opened up and houses and people fell in there was no one there but a cruel Taliban in a country destroyed by years of war. But earthquakes are an act of nature while bombs are an act of man.
Also those buried in the tunnels who are very much alive until it happens. Perhaps that is why thetunnels are inter-linked, although that may not be the case now.