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Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive. Animals or humans may be buried alive accidentally on the mistaken assumption that they are dead, or intentionally as a form of torture, murder, or execution. It may also occur with the consent of the victim as a part of a stunt ...
Safety coffin. Taberger's Safety Coffin employed a bell as a signaling device, for anybody buried alive. A safety coffin or security coffin is a coffin fitted with a mechanism to prevent premature burial or allow the occupant to signal that they have been buried alive. A large number of designs for safety coffins were patented during the 18th ...
Taphophobia (from Greek τάφος – taphos, "grave, tomb" [1] and φόβος – phobos, "fear" [2]) is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. [3] Before the era of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational. Throughout history, there have been numerous cases ...
It is believed that the girl may have been accidentally buried alive and then died from lack of oxygen after waking up inside the coffin.
Death by burning. An 1892 painting showing the 1682 burning of Old Believer leader Avvakum and others in Pustozersk, Russia. Death by burning is an execution, murder, or suicide method involving combustion or exposure to extreme heat. It has a long history as a form of public capital punishment, and many societies have employed it as a ...
In 1976, gunmen stormed a school bus carrying 26 children – ages 5 to 14 – and their bus driver in Chowchilla, California. As part of a ransom plot, they drove the hostages into a rock quarry ...
People have willingly arranged to be buried alive, reportedly demonstrating their disputed ability to survive such an event for many centuries. The fear of being buried alive peaked during the cholera epidemics of the 19th century, but accounts of unintentional live burial have been recorded even earlier. Reports of doctors and accounts in ...
People who were buried alive.Includes people who were prematurely buried intentionally (as a form of torture, murder or execution), voluntarily (as suicide, or as a stunt, with the intention to escape), accidentally (e.g. under rubble due to a disaster or collapse of a building or cave), or unintentionally (in the mistaken belief that the living person is dead).