Funeral of living people. Scientists: it is possible to revive dead people a day after death. Old lady in a body bag
Probably each of us remembers from our school days the frightening stories of literature teachers about Gogol, buried alive, who suffered from periodic falls into lethargic sleep.
And there were so many mysteries, rumors and other fables around this terrible story that it is not completely known whether it was true, or whether the historians embellished it a little. But today we will tell you far from the sad fate of Gogol. We'll tell you real stories people who experienced the horror of a confined space under the lid of a coffin. You wouldn't wish this on anyone. Creepy is not the right word!
1. Octavia Smith Hatcher
At the end of the 19th century, an outbreak of an unknown disease occurred in Kentucky that claimed many lives. But the most tragic incident happened to Octavia Hatcher. Her little son Jacob died in January 1891 of unknown causes. Octavia then became depressed, spending all her time lying down in bed. Time passed, but the depressive state only worsened, and, in the end, Octavia fell into a coma. On May 2, 1891, doctors officially declared her dead, without specifying the cause of death.
Embalming was not practiced at that time, so Octavia was quickly buried in a local cemetery due to the sweltering heat. Just a week after the funeral, an outbreak of the same unknown disease was recorded in the city, and many townspeople fell into a coma. But with only one difference - after some time they woke up. Octavia's husband began to fear the worst and worried that he had buried his wife too early, while she was still breathing. He had the body exhumed, and his fears were confirmed. The top lid of the coffin was scratched and the fabric was torn to shreds. Octavia's fingers were bloody and raw, and her face was twisted in horror. The poor woman died conscious in a coffin many meters deep.
Octavia's husband reburied his wife and erected a majestic monument over her grave, which still stands today. Doctors later suggested that this comatose state was caused by the bite of the Tsetse fly and is known as sleeping sickness.
2. Mina El Khouari
When man walking on a date, he always thinks about how it could all end. It's great to be prepared for the unexpected, but no one prepares to be buried alive. A similar story happened in May 2014 with Mina El Houari from France. The 25-year-old girl corresponded online with her lover for many months before she decided to go to him in Morocco for a personal meeting. She arrived at a hotel in Fez on May 19 to meet the man of her dreams, but her plans were not destined to come true.
Mina, of course, met her lover, but suddenly she felt bad and lost consciousness. The young man, instead of calling the police or an ambulance, made a hasty decision to bury his beloved in a small grave in the garden. The only problem was that Mina didn't actually die. As is often the case, Mina had undiagnosed diabetes, which causes episodes of diabetic coma. Several days passed before her family filed a missing person report for their daughter. They flew to Morocco to try to find her.
Moroccan police tracked down the would-be groom and broke into his house. They found soiled clothing and a used shovel before discovering a horrific burial in the garden. The man confessed to his crime and was convicted of manslaughter.
3. Mrs. Boger
In July 1893, tragedy struck Charles Boger's family: his beloved wife, Mrs. Boger, died suddenly of unknown causes. Doctors confirmed her death, so the burial took place very quickly. This could have put an end to this story if Charles’s friend had not told him that before meeting him, Mrs. Boger suffered from hysteria. And this could be the reason for her sudden “death”.
The obsessive thought of burying his wife alive did not leave Charles, and he asked his friends to help him exhume the body. What Charles saw in the coffin shocked him. Mrs. Boger's body was turned face down. Her clothes were torn to shreds, the glass lid of the coffin was broken, and shards were scattered all over her body. The skin was bloody and covered with scratches, and the fingers were completely missing. Supposedly, Mrs. Boger chewed off her fingers in a hysterical fit, trying to free herself. What happened next to Charles Boger is unknown.
4. Angelo Hayes
Some of the worst stories of premature burial are those in which the buried victim miraculously manages to survive. This is what happened to Angel Hayes. In 1937, a carefree 19-year-old boy, Angelo, was riding his motorcycle. Suddenly, he lost control and crashed into a brick wall, hitting his head.
The guy was buried 3 days after the accident. If it weren't for the insurance company's suspicions, no one would have known the real truth. A few weeks before the accident, Angelo's father insured his son's life for £200,000. Insurance Company filed a complaint and the inspector began an investigation.
An inspector exhumed Angelo's body to determine the real reason death of the boy. And imagine the surprise of the inspector and doctors when, under the shroud, they discovered the warm body of a boy with a barely perceptible heartbeat. At the same moment, Angelo was taken to the hospital, several operations and the necessary resuscitation were performed to put the guy on his feet. All this time, Angelo was unconscious due to a serious head injury. After a rehabilitation course, the boy began to produce coffins from which one could easily escape in case of premature burial. He toured with his invention and became something of a celebrity in France.
5. Mr. Cornish
Cornish was the beloved mayor of Bath, who died of fever 80 years before the publication of Snart's work. As was customary at that time, the body of the deceased was quickly buried. When the gravedigger had almost finished his work, he decided to take a short break and have a drink with friends passing by. While they were talking, heartbreaking groans were suddenly heard coming from the newly filled grave.
The gravedigger realized that he had buried a man alive and tried to save him before the oxygen supply in the coffin ran out. But by the time the gravedigger dug the coffin out from under the buried soil, it was too late. Mr Cornish's elbows and knees were bloodied and abraded. This story terribly frightened Cornish's half-sister, so she asked to be beheaded after her death so that she would not suffer the same fate.
6. Surviving 6-year-old child
The very thought of a premature burial seems terrible, let alone burying a child who is still alive. In August 2014, a little 6-year-old girl found herself in such a situation in the small Indian village of Uttar Pradash. According to the girl's uncle, the neighbor's married couple told the child that her mother asked to bring the girl to a neighboring village for a fair. On the way, the couple, for an unknown reason, decided to strangle the girl and bury her right there.
Fortunately, local residents, who were working in the field at that time, suspected something was wrong when the couple came out of the thicket without the child. They found the spot where they found the girl's lifeless body in a shallow grave. The girl was immediately taken to the hospital, where, thanks to a miracle, she woke up and was able to tell about her kidnappers.
The girl did not remember that she was buried alive. Police do not know the reasons why the couple wanted to kill the child. Moreover, the suspects have not yet been caught. It is a great blessing that this story did not end in tragedy.
7. Buried alive of his own free will
Humanity knows of cases when people tried to deceive fate and even challenge it. Today you can even buy practical guides to help you get out of your grave if you were buried alive.
Moreover, many people like to tickle their nerves, believing that after this they will be happy for the rest of their days. In 2011, a 35-year-old Russian man decided to play with death, but tragically died.
After asking a friend for help, the man dug himself a grave outside Blagoveshchensk, where he placed a homemade coffin, a piece of water pipe, a bottle of water and a mobile phone.
After the man lay down in the coffin, his friend covered the coffin with earth and left. A few hours later, the deceased called a friend and said that he felt great. But when the friend returned in the morning, he found a corpse in the grave. It probably rained at night, which blocked the supply of oxygen, and the man simply suffocated. Despite the tragedy of the situation, such “entertainment” was popular in Russia at one time, and it is unknown how many people died this way.
8. Lawrence Cawthorne
There are many stories of premature burials that seem to be nothing more than a legend that is difficult to believe. A similar story is about a London butcher named Lawrence Cawthorne, who was terminally ill in 1661. Mistress land plot, where Lawrence worked, was expecting him speedy death because of the large inheritance she wanted to receive. She made every effort to have him declared dead and quickly buried in a small chapel.
After the funeral, mourners heard screams and moans from the newly buried grave. They rushed to tear up Cawthorne's grave, but it was too late. Lawrence's clothes were torn, his eyes were swollen, and his head was bloody. The woman was accused of premeditated murder of a person, and the story was passed on from generation to generation for a long time.
9. Sipho William Mdletshe
In 1993, a 24-year-old South African man and his fiancee were involved in a serious car accident. His fiancee survived, but Sipho, who suffered extensive injuries, was pronounced dead. The guy's body was taken to the Johannesburg mortuary, where it was placed in a metal container for burial. But in fact, Sipho was not dead, he was only unconscious. Two days later he woke up in captivity. Confused, he began screaming for help.
Fortunately, the morgue workers were nearby and were able to help the guy get out of captivity. Having escaped the horror of the death chamber, Sipho went to his bride. But she decided that Sipho was a zombie and drove him away. Not only was the guy buried alive, but the girl also rejected him. Bad luck for the poor guy((
10. Stephen Small
In 1987, wealthy media heir Stephen Small was kidnapped and buried alive in a homemade coffin near Kankakee. 30-year-old Denny Edwards and 26-year-old Nancy Risch planned to kidnap Steven, bury him underground and demand a ransom of $1 million from his relatives. The kidnappers took care of Steven's minimal needs for air, water and light using pipes. But despite this, the man suffocated.
Police were able to locate Mr. Small from his burgundy Mercedes, which had been left near the burial site. Despite the fact that Denny and Nancy were convicted, for a long time there were discussions about whether it was a premeditated murder or not. In any case, this crime is terrible, and the kidnappers will spend another 27 long years behind bars.
It is no coincidence that in almost all countries and among all peoples it is customary to bury the body not immediately after death, but only a few days later. There have been many cases when “dead people” suddenly came to life before the funeral, or, worst of all, right inside the grave...Imaginary death
Lethargy (from the Greek lethe - “oblivion” and argia - “inaction”) is a largely unexplored painful state similar to sleep. Signs of death have always been considered the cessation of heartbeat and lack of breathing. But during lethargic sleep, all life processes also freeze, and to distinguish real death from imaginary sleep (as lethargic sleep is often called) without modern equipment is quite difficult. Therefore, earlier cases of burial of people who did not die, but who fell asleep in a lethargic sleep, took place quite often, and sometimes with famous people.
If now burial alive is already a fantasy, then 100-200 years ago cases of burial of living people were not so uncommon. Very often, gravediggers, digging a fresh grave at ancient burial sites, discovered twisted bodies in half-decayed coffins, from which it was clear that they were trying to get out to freedom. They say that in medieval cemeteries every third grave was such an eerie sight.
Fatal sleeping pill
Helena Blavatsky described strange cases of lethargy: “In 1816 in Brussels, a respected citizen fell into deep lethargy on Sunday morning. On Monday, as his companions prepared to hammer nails into the coffin lid, he sat up in the coffin, rubbed his eyes and demanded coffee and a newspaper. In Moscow, the wife of a wealthy businessman lay in a cataleptic state for seventeen days, during which the authorities made several attempts to bury her; but since decomposition did not occur, the family rejected the ceremony, and after the expiration of the mentioned period, the life of the supposedly dead woman was restored. In Bergerac in 1842, a patient took sleeping pills, but... did not wake up. They bled him: he did not wake up. Finally he was declared dead and buried. A few days later they remembered to take sleeping pills and dug up the grave. The body was turned over and bore signs of a struggle.”
This is only a small part of such cases - lethargic sleep is actually quite common.
Scary awakening
Many people tried to protect themselves from being buried alive. For example, the famous writer Wilkie Collins left a note at his bedside with a list of measures that should be taken before he was buried. But the writer was educated person and had an idea about lethargic sleep, while many ordinary people never even thought of something like that.
So, in 1838, an incredible incident occurred in England. After the funeral of a respected person, a boy was walking through the cemetery and heard an unclear sound from underground. The frightened child called the adults, who dug up the coffin. When the lid was removed, the shocked witnesses saw that a terrible grimace was frozen on the face of the deceased. His arms were freshly bruised and his shroud was torn. But the man was already actually dead - he died a few minutes before being rescued - from a broken heart, unable to withstand such a terrible awakening to reality.
An even more terrible incident occurred in Germany in 1773. A pregnant woman was buried there. When screams began to be heard from underground, the grave was dug up. But it turned out that it was already too late - the woman died, and moreover, the child who had just been born in the same grave died...
Crying Soul
In the fall of 2002, a misfortune happened in the family of Krasnoyarsk resident Irina Andreevna Maletina - her thirty-year-old son Mikhail unexpectedly died. A strong, athletic guy who never complained about his health, died at night in his sleep. The body was autopsied, but the cause of death could not be determined. The doctor who drew up the death report told Irina Andreevna that her son died of sudden cardiac arrest.
As expected, Mikhail was buried on the third day, a wake was celebrated... And suddenly the next night his mother dreamed of her dead son crying. In the afternoon, Irina Andreevna went to church and lit a candle for the repose of the soul of the newly deceased. However crying son continued to appear in her dreams for another week. Maletina turned to one of the priests, who, after listening, said disappointing words that the young man might have been buried alive. It took Irina Andreevna incredible efforts to obtain permission to carry out the exhumation. When the coffin was opened, the grief-stricken woman instantly turned gray with horror. Her beloved son was lying on his side. His clothes, ritual blanket and pillow were torn to shreds. There were numerous abrasions and bruises on the hands of the corpse, which were not present during the funeral. All this eloquently indicated that the man woke up in the grave, and then died for a long time and painfully.
A resident of the city of Bereznyaki near Solikamsk, Elena Ivanovna Duzhkina, recalls how once in her childhood she and a group of children saw a coffin floating out of nowhere during the spring flood of the Kama. The waves washed him to the shore. The frightened children called the adults. People opened the coffin and saw with horror a yellowish skeleton dressed in rotten rags. The skeleton lay prone, legs tucked under itself. The entire lid of the coffin, darkened by time, was covered with deep scratches from the inside.
Living Gogol
The most famous similar case became scary tale, associated with Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. During his life, several times he fell into a strange, absolutely motionless state, reminiscent of death. But great writer He always came to his senses quickly, although he managed to fairly scare those around him. Gogol knew about this peculiarity of his and, more than anything else, was afraid that one day he would fall into deep dream for a long time and he will be buried alive. He wrote: “Being in the full presence of memory and common sense, I state here my last will. I bequeath my body not to be buried until obvious signs of decomposition appear. I mention this because even during the illness itself, moments of vital numbness came over me, my heart and pulse stopped beating.”
After the writer’s death, they did not listen to his will and buried him as usual - on the third day...
These terrible words were remembered only in 1931, when Gogol was reburied from the Danilov Monastery on Novodevichy Cemetery. According to eyewitnesses, the lid of the coffin was scratched from the inside, and Gogol's body was in an unnatural position. At the same time, another terrible thing was discovered, which had nothing to do with lethargic dreams and burials alive. Gogol's skeleton was missing... its head. According to rumors, she disappeared in 1909, when the monks of the Danilov Monastery were restoring the writer’s grave. Allegedly, they were persuaded to cut it off for a considerable sum by the collector and rich man Bakhrushin, with whom it remained. This is a wild story, but it is quite possible to believe it, because in 1931, during the excavation of Gogol’s grave, a number of unpleasant events occurred. Famous writers, who were present at the reburial, literally stole from the coffin “as a souvenir,” some a piece of clothing, some shoes, and some Gogol’s rib...
Call from the other world
Interestingly, in order to protect a person from being buried alive, in many Western countries there is still a bell with a rope in morgues. A person thought to be dead may wake up among the dead, stand up and ring the bell. The servants will immediately come running to his call. This bell and the revival of the dead are very often played out in horror films, but such stories almost never happened in reality. But during the autopsy, the “corpses” came to life more than once. In 1964, an autopsy was performed in a New York morgue on a man who died on the street. As soon as the pathologist’s scalpel touched the “dead man’s” stomach, he immediately jumped up. The pathologist himself died of shock and fright on the spot...
Another similar case was described in the Biysk Rabochiy newspaper. An article dated September 1959 told how, during the funeral of an engineer of one of the Biysk factories, while delivering funeral speeches, the deceased suddenly sneezed, opened his eyes, sat up in the coffin and “almost died a second time, seeing the situation in which located". A thorough examination at a local hospital of the man who rose from the grave did not reveal any pathological changes in his body. The same conclusion was given by the Novosibirsk doctors to whom the resurrected engineer was sent.
Ritual burials
However, people do not always find themselves buried alive against their own will. So, among some African tribes and nationalities South America, Siberia and the Far North, there is a ritual in which the tribe’s healer buries a relative alive. A number of nationalities perform this ritual for the initiation of boys. In some tribes they use it to treat certain diseases. In the same way, old people or sick people are prepared for the transition to another world.
The “pseudo-funeral” ritual occupies an important place among ministers of shamanic cults. It is believed that by going to the grave alive, the shaman receives the gift of communication with the spirits of the earth, as well as with the souls of deceased ancestors. It’s as if some channels open in his consciousness through which he communicates with worlds unknown to mere mortals.
Naturalist and ethnographer E.S. Bogdanovsky was lucky in 1915 to witness the ritual funeral of a shaman of one of the Kamchatka tribes. In his memoirs, Bogdanovsky writes that before the burial the shaman fasted for three days and did not even drink water. Then the assistants, using a bone drill, made a hole in the crown of the shaman, which was then sealed with beeswax. After this, the shaman’s body was rubbed with incense, wrapped in a bear skin and, accompanied by ritual singing, lowered into a grave built in the center of the family cemetery. A long reed tube was inserted into the shaman's mouth, which was taken out, and his motionless body was covered with earth. A few days later, during which rituals were continuously performed over the grave, the buried shaman was removed from the ground, washed in three running waters and fumigated with incense. On the same day, the village magnificently celebrated the second birth of a respected fellow tribesman, who, having visited “ kingdom of the dead", took the top step in the hierarchy of the servants of the pagan cult...
IN last years a tradition has emerged of putting charged mobile phones next to the deceased - suddenly this is not death at all, but a dream, suddenly a dear person will come to his senses and call his loved ones - I’m alive, dig me back up... But so far such cases have not happened - in our days, with With advanced diagnostic devices, it is in principle impossible to bury a person alive.
But nevertheless, people do not believe doctors and try to protect themselves from a terrible awakening in the grave. In 2001, a scandalous incident occurred in the United States. Los Angeles resident Joe Barten, terribly afraid of falling into a lethargic sleep, bequeathed ventilation in his coffin, putting food and a telephone in it. And at the same time, his relatives could receive an inheritance only on the condition that they call his grave three times a day. It’s interesting that Barten’s relatives refused to receive the inheritance - they found the process of making calls to the next world too creepy...
Imagine for a moment a creepy situation in which you wake up in a coffin a couple of meters underground. You are there in complete darkness, where in the silence of the grave, suffocating from fear and lack of air, you scream in horror, but no one will hear the screams. Being buried alive, a phenomenon known as being buried prematurely, seems like the worst thing that can happen to a person.
The fear of being buried alive and waking up in a coffin is called taphophobia. In our time, this is an extremely exceptional case (if there are any), but the prospect of going to the grave alive was turned into a large and popular wave of horror by the society of previous eras. And people had a reason to be afraid.
Until standard medical procedures were developed, some people were mistakenly declared dead. They were probably in a coma or lethargic sleep, and were buried while still alive. This frightening fact was later discovered by various reasons to exhume the body.
THE BURIED ALIVE TRIED TO LEAVE THE GRAVE.
Probably the first recorded episode is the Scottish philosopher John Dans Scotus (1266-1308). At some point after his death, the grave was opened, and people shied away in fear when they saw the corpse halfway out of the coffin.
The dead man's hands were bloody from attempts to escape from his place of eternal rest (by the way, such stories gave rise to rumors about). The philosopher did not have enough air to reach the surface and return to the world of the living.
Bloody fingers are common feature buried alive. Often, when coffins were opened after someone's "death", the body was found in a twisted position with scratches all over the coffin, as well as broken nails in unsuccessful attempt escape from the grave.
However, not all those buried alive were the result of an accident. For example, placing living people in graves was a savage method of execution in China and the Khmer Rouge.
One legend says that in the 6th century, a monk now known as Saint Oran was volunteered to be buried alive as a sacrifice to ensure the successful construction of a church on the Scottish coast island of Iona.
The funeral took place, and after a while the coffin was taken out of the grave, freeing the barely alive Oran. The distraught monk reported sad news for the entire Christian community: afterlife there was no hell or heaven.
SPECIAL COFFINS FOR TAPHOPHOBIA.
Fear is good product, the businessmen decided and, taking advantage of the phobia, they brought special coffins to the market. The concept of a "safe coffin" was developed to calm the fear of being buried alive. There are many expensive and “statement” coffin designs with bells on the market.
In 1791, a certain minister was buried in a coffin with a glass window, which allowed the cemetery guard to check and see that the minister was not asking to go home. Another design consisted of a coffin with air pipes and keys to the coffin and tomb in case the revived one needed to escape from the grave.
An 18th-century coffin had a string that could be used to ring a bell or raise a flag above the ground if the person buried was accidentally placed in the grave.
Coffins with rescue tools were significantly improved in the 1990s.For example, a patent was submitted for the construction of a coffin with alarms, lighting and medical equipment. The amazing design should keep the person alive in good comfort while the body is dug up. True, there were no reports of those buried using a safe coffin.
The topic of premature burial is not limited to the medical or commercial activities. As a result of widespread fear, the story of Edgar Allan Poe appeared in 1844. The author's story was about a man suffering from deep taphophobia as a result of a cataleptic state. He was worried that people would consider him dead during one of his attacks and bury the unfortunate man alive.
The fear of being buried alive had a profound impact on society. There are many films with people waking up in the grave. Some reflected Edgar's ideas on this matter. Even today, reading 100-year-old works, a shiver runs down your spine when you read detailed descriptions the unfortunate victims desperately trying to find a way out of the coffins.
CASES OF PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE.
For the next three people, a safe coffin could definitely be extremely useful. These are real stories of people buried alive who woke up in their graves. True, only one of them was lucky to return to people
Angelo Hayes- a famous French inventor and lover of motorcycle racing, spent two days in the grave, being a living dead (in 1937). Angelo was thrown from his motorcycle when he hit a curb and hit his head hard on a brick wall.
At the age of 19, he was pronounced dead from massive head trauma. His face was so disfigured that his parents could not see their son. The doctor pronounced Angelo Hayes dead and thus he was buried.
However, there was a problem insurance policy, and insurance company agents, having some suspicions, requested the exhumation of the body two days after the funeral. Once the body was exhumed and released from funeral clothes, then Hayes was found warm with a weak heartbeat. After a miraculous “resurrection” and complete recovery, Angelo became a celebrity in France, with people coming from all over the country to talk to him.
Virginia MacDonald - New York (1851 case)
After long illness Virginia MacDonald succumbed to illness and died quietly. She was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn. However, Virginia's mother insisted that her daughter was not dead. Relatives tried to console the mother and urged her to come to terms with the loss, but the woman was firm in her conviction.
Mary Nora - Calcutta (17th century).
Seventeen-year-old Mary Nora Best succumbed to an outbreak of cholera. Due to the heat and the spread of the disease, the family decided to bury the deceased girl quickly. The doctor signed the death certificate, and relatives buried the body in the old French cemetery. She was buried in a pine coffin, leaving her body in the ground for a dozen years, although some had questions about her death.
Ten years later, the family tomb was opened to place the body of the deceased brother in the crypt. At this sad moment, it became clear that the lid of Mary’s coffin was badly damaged—literally torn. The skeleton itself lay half out of the coffin. It was later believed that the doctor who signed the death certificate actually poisoned the girl, also trying to kill her mother.
These are wild deaths, but for every one of them, there are many other people who were found dead in their graves, trying to escape from the coffin. It’s a terrible thing, but there are probably still poor souls who, having woken up in coffins, tried to leave the grave, but were not discovered.
Horror stories about how some person buried alive, have existed since the Middle Ages, if not earlier. And then they didn't, but they were real facts. The level of development of medicine was too low and such cases could well have happened. There are rumors that a similar terrible situation happened to the great writer Nikolai Gogol, and not only to him.
As for our time, there are chances to be buried alive Hardly ever. The fact is that for some reason curious doctors are extremely fond of clarifying why this or that person died, and to do this they open him up, examine his organs and, upon completion, carefully stitch him up. You understand that it will not be possible to wake up in a coffin in this situation; rather, the pathologist’s report will contain the line “The autopsy showed that death occurred as a result of an autopsy.”
OK. Let's say your relatives are categorically against an autopsy for religious or other reasons. This sometimes happens in our country too. In this case, the chance that you buried alive, appears. Then there are two options - either a cheap coffin, which is broken by two and a half meters of earth, or a metal coffin, expensive and reinforced. But even here it is not a fact that he will survive.
At one time there was a wonderful program on the Discovery Channel - “MythBusters”. There, two special effects engineers/masters reproduced popular myths and stories, testing in practice whether it was possible. And in one episode they finally got there buried alive. Actually, a high-quality metal coffin, controlled conditions - the ability to remove the wall holding two meters of earth with one click, a camera, a microphone, rescuers on the site. They began to slowly cover the coffin with earth. They didn’t fall asleep until the end - the tester lost his nerves, as the metal coffin began to DEFORM. So, alas, even with expensive coffins you may not be lucky.
The second option is you buried alive evil bandits, CIA agents, reptilians from the planet Nibiru. But these gentlemen certainly won’t spend money on a coffin, but will bury you without it. But okay, let’s say these gentlemen were generous and provided you with the necessary containers. Most likely - a cheap one, which means it will stupidly break under the weight of the earth, you will not have a supply of oxygen and there is nothing further to talk about.
Okay, let’s say you were buried very, very shallow, which in itself is unlikely, since there are rules in this regard, for violation of which gravediggers are punished. And at the same time they put you in a coffin, which by some miracle withstood the load and did not fall apart to hell. What then?
« First of all, don't panic". Brilliant. You come to your senses, it’s dark around, you can move, but you can’t straighten your arm, besides, only a person who is in a REALLY bad state can be mistaken for dead, and this also affects the psyche. And the realization has not yet come that there are two meters of earth above you. Do not panic. Yeah of course. Everyone knows how to easily pull themselves together. Plus, consider the fact that you will PROBABLY be very stuffy, because there is a chance that you will come to your senses immediately after buried alive- minimal. And a significant part of the oxygen will already be spent.
« Check if you can call". Yes, some are already being buried with mobile phones. But, damn it, many people can’t even get a connection in the subway! And here we are talking about two meters of earth, which become a wonderful obstacle to any signal. Plus, you still need to think, fumble for the phone, see that there is still charge left in it... In short, the chances are minimal.
« Lift the shirt over your head, almost turning it inside out, and tie it to make a bag.". The width of the coffin is from 50 to 70 centimeters. Are you sure that such manipulations can be carried out in such a limited space? It will be difficult to say the least. And if you take into account the confusion due to previous factors and lack of oxygen, then it’s completely unrealistic.
« Use your feet to make a hole in the middle of the coffin. Or use a belt buckle". The height of the coffin is from 30 to 50 cm, depending on the dimensions of the “dead”. You simply won't be able to swing normally. Although no, I saw in the movies how the heroine of Uma Thurman, who buried alive, I was able to repeat this trick. But here’s the problem: she had previously been specially trained by a malicious Chinese so that she could deliver crushing blows without swinging. And you probably didn’t have such a teacher. The situation with your legs is no better - you can hardly even bend them at the knees. Again, while you are intensively trying to break the lid, oxygen is consumed more. And I’m generally silent about the expensive metal coffin.
Total. So that you can come to your senses after you buried alive, you need a confluence of extremely unlikely circumstances. But even if this suddenly happens, you have absolutely no chance of getting out. Unless a miracle happens. On the other hand, the phobia is common enough that you can theoretically prepare for this situation. I know for sure that in the USA they specially produce coffins from which you can report if suddenly their occupant is tired of lying there. A properly drawn up will and money will provide you with such a coffin. And also banal tactical knife, which will seriously increase your chances in the fight against the lid.
This is the difference between a normal survivalist and ordinary person- he has a plan of action even for such incredible cases. And such preparation can really save a life, or even more than one.
Scientists have managed to develop a technique for reviving people a day after their death.According to resuscitation expert Sam Parnia, if resuscitation is carried out correctly, brain cells do not die five minutes after cardiac arrest, as previously thought.
Today, in the case of using special manipulations and necessary equipment, the human brain is capable of living for several hours after recorded death. This period of time can last up to 72 hours.
According to the specialist, if the patient’s body is cooled to a temperature of 34 to 32 degrees Celsius, he can remain in this state for up to 24 hours. With a decrease in body temperature, the brain uses less oxygen, the formation of toxic substances stops, which, in turn, prevents the death of cells and gives doctors a chance to “pull a person out of the other world.”
At the same time, Parnia especially notes that for the method to work successfully, it is necessary to strictly perform all resuscitation procedures, because even one small mistake can lead to death or brain damage.
The doctor also recalled cases of “resurrection” in modern medicine. Thus, doctors were able to bring English Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba back to life. The athlete lost consciousness on March 17, 2012 in an FA Cup match with Tottenham, his heart didn't beat for about 1.5 hours.
July 2, 2009 Haaretz reported that an elderly Israeli man "came to life" after an ambulance team issued his death certificate and was about to send his body to the morgue.
Arriving on an urgent call to the apartment of an 84-year-old resident of the city of Ramat Gan, ambulance doctors found him lying on the floor without signs of life. Attempts to resuscitate the old man were considered unsuccessful, and doctors signed official documents confirming his death. However, when the doctors left, the policeman who remained in the apartment noticed that the “deceased” was breathing and moving his hands. By the time the ambulance arrived again, he had already regained consciousness.
August 19, 2008 Reuters reported that the baby, who was born in an Israeli hospital as a result of a forced abortion, showed signs of life after a five-hour stay in the refrigerator.
A girl weighing only 600 grams was born on August 18. Her mother had to have an involuntary abortion due to severe internal bleeding at 23 weeks of pregnancy. Doctors, considering the severely premature baby dead, put him in a refrigerator, where the girl spent at least five hours. Signs of life in the newborn were noticed by her parents, who came to pick her up for burial.
According to doctors, the temperature inside the refrigerator slowed down the child's metabolism, and this helped him survive. The child was admitted to the intensive neonatal care unit.
IN early 2008A Frenchman who suffered a myocardial infarction and whose cardiologists declared cardiac arrest “came to life” on the operating table when surgeons began to remove his organs for transplantation.
A 45-year-old man, who did not follow the regimen prescribed by doctors, suffered a massive myocardial infarction at the beginning of the year. Arrived ambulance took him to a nearby hospital. However, when the man arrived at the hospital, his heart was not beating. Doctors decided that it was “technically impossible” to help him.
According to the law, in such cases of cardiac arrest, patients can automatically become organ donors. However, when surgeons began the operation, they found signs of breathing in the potential donor and suspended operations.
In November 2007A resident of the American city of Frederick (Texas, USA), 21-year-old Zach Dunlap was pronounced dead in a hospital in Wichita Falls (Texas), where he was taken after a car accident. Relatives have already given consent to the use of organs young man for transplantation, but during the farewell ceremony he suddenly moved his leg and hand. Then those present pressed Zach's nail and touched his foot with a pocket knife, to which the young man immediately reacted. After the “resurrection,” Zach spent another 48 days in the hospital.
In October 200573 year old pensioner from Italian city Mantov unexpectedly came to life 35 minutes after doctors declared him dead.
An elderly Italian man was lying in the cardiology department of the Carlo Poma Hospital in Mantova when an echocardiograph indicated that his heart had stopped. All attempts by doctors to resuscitate the man were useless: cardiac massage and artificial ventilation did not produce results. Doctors recorded death. However, suddenly the line on the echocardiograph began to move again: the man was alive. Soon the man, already declared dead, began to move and then began to recover.
As the doctors stated after the test, the equipment worked perfectly and the only plausible explanation is the assumption that a person is able to endure cardiac ischemia for such a long period.
In January 2004In the northern Indian state of Haryana, an Indian man was brought back to life after spending several hours in a morgue refrigerator.
The man was taken to the morgue by police, who found him lying by the road with injuries. The doctors of the hospital where he was taken, based on the results of the examination, wrote down: “dead at the time of arrival” - and identified the “body” to the morgue immediately after they handed over all the necessary papers to the police.
However, after a few hours, the “deceased” began to move, leaving the morgue staff in a state of shock. Morgue workers immediately took him back to the hospital.
January 5, 2004Reuters reported that a bureau employee funeral processions in New Mexico, discovered that one Felipe Padilla, who was declared dead in the hospital, was breathing. The man “came to life” just minutes before Padilla’s body was to be embalmed. Felipe Padilla, 94, was taken to the same hospital where he was previously pronounced dead. However, a few hours later the old man died in the hospital.
In January 200379-year-old pensioner Roberto de Simone was taken to the cardiology department of the Cervello Hospital in almost hopeless condition. The patient was immediately connected to cardiac and cerebral activity support systems. Roberto de Simone's heart stopped for two minutes. Doctors attempted to restore the heart's function using adrenaline, but despite all efforts, death was recorded after some time. The doctors decided that the patient had died and handed over his body to his relatives so that they could say goodbye to him before the funeral. De Simone was taken home as if dead.
When everything was ready for the funeral ceremony and the coffin was to be closed, Simone opened his eyes and asked for water. The relatives decided that a “miracle” had happened and called the family doctor. He examined the patient and ordered to take him to the hospital. This time with a diagnosis of pneumology - a serious respiratory disease.
In April 2002 the man “came to life” a few hours after doctors in the Indian city of Lucknow (the capital of the state of Uttar Pradesh) issued his relatives a death certificate.
A resident of one of the villages of the state, 55-year-old Sukhlal was taken to the hospital with a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The prescribed course of treatment did not produce positive results, and one day the doctors had to declare the patient’s death. The patient's son was given a death certificate. When preparations for cremation were completed, the son came to the morgue to pick up his father's body, and then discovered that he was breathing. He immediately called doctors, who felt the “corpse’s” pulse and demanded that his son return the death certificate. Only thanks to the persistence of journalists, the hospital management undertook an internal investigation into this incident. However, the attending physician Mehrotra rejected all doubts about his professionalism; in his opinion, the case of the “revived” Sukhlal was a “miracle” that happened for the first time in his practice.
This is only a small part of the “miraculous” resurrection.
