In 1896, there was a group called the “Society for the Prevention of People Being Buried Alive” started by Victorian Americans. Among other things they attempted, they tried to get a law established making it so you could only bury someone after strong smell and putrefaction were evident. Source
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Today I found out that the medical term for the irrational fear of being buried alive is called Taphophobia, also occasionally spelled Tephephobia, which means the same thing. Taphophobia derives from the Greek “taphos” meaning “grave”. Today, this would be considered a somewhat irrational fear. However, it wasn’t too long ago that this wasn’t irrational at all. Taphophobia hit […]
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Today I found out how to survive being buried alive in a coffin. Yesterday, I posted an article on taphophobia and I got an email from a reader wondering if I could write-up an article on the best ways to actually get out of a coffin, if you happen to find yourself buried alive in one. So here goes. First, […]
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