Call From The Grave

[Charon]

Are you afraid of being buried alive? What would you do to prevent it? It does sound like a miserable way to spend the last moments of your life, I'd probably have a panic attack if I woke up six feet underground. Maybe I should include bury me with my cell phone on my will, assuming that I can get call reception down there, lol.

 

[Latimer]

I've wondered about the name you choose to share with the ferryman of Hades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(mythology)

 

[BillyT]

Not me I am being cremated.

 

[Cormac135]

Not me I am being cremated.

Same here.

 

[medic1]

Not me I am being cremated.

Same here.

Ditto, G and i have arranged our cremation plans, which include, when the time comes for our ashes to be transported to Adelaide, and laid to rest beside Erik.

 

[Kahaih]

Request a five point embalming. Problem solved.
Just make sure that they are careful to keep Worcestershire sauce out of the embalming room.

 

[eastofeden]

I used to be addicted to Days of Our Lives.....and Vivian was the reason.....

This is what Vivian did..to Carly

 

[rareboy]

I have some fear of being buried alive in an accidental way...but not of being buried alive after I am clinically dead.

In the latter case, if I have so successfully fooled everyone into thinking that I am dead...and they don't cremate me, then the joke is on me if I wake up buried under 6 feet of dirt.

 

[NotHardUp1]

I worked at a funeral home. In modern times, it is almost impossible. In centuries past, it was rare, but possible.

Today, clinical death is established usually as a matter of course. In my hometown there was a doctor who signed a death certificate for a woman who was in a diabetic coma, as discovered later when she sat up in the funeral home in the prep room. The doctor was ruined in that town and had to move to be able to practice medicine again. My mother used that doctor, btw.

I have no fears associated with death. As Caesar put it for his master, Shakespeare, "it will come when it will come."

 

[Benvolio]

Not me I am being cremated.

That is a wonderful solution. You wake up in the furnace rather than the grave.

 

[freefall]

^Unless someone knocked you unconscious then buried you in the middle of wilderness a.k.a. murder by live burial
But yeah unless you have a foe that abhorrent of you, the chance of having that happening to you is really slim.

 

[Vannie]

Buried alive? What if I had stuffed cabbage for lunch?

 

[FPNY]

Are those being cremated afraid of being cremated alive? Hah?

 

[freefall]

^I think that's act of arson

Buried alive? What if I had stuffed cabbage for lunch?

Suffocate from the hydrogen sulfide and methane your self-betraying body release :evil:

 

[Vannie]

Are those being cremated afraid of being cremated alive? Hah?

I read somewhere body fat really ignites and gets things going quicker.

 

[peeonme]

I have requested to not be embalmed as I prefer to rot away as soon as possible and turn back to dust.
This could open the doors for a live burial, but the oxygen would run out pretty fast and I would just doze off and really die so I don't have any dread fear of it happening.

 

[Kahaih]

Embalming treatments, even the 5 point, don't really last very long.

 

[HoodedRat]

Bathory!

I still miss Quorthon.


I'm not worried about death in any particular way really. I'm more worried about wanting/needing to die when the time is right and not being able to.

 

[Benvolio]

I have requested to not be embalmed as I prefer to rot away as soon as possible and turn back to dust.
This could open the doors for a live burial, but the oxygen would run out pretty fast and I would just doze off and really die so I don't have any dread fear of it happening.

Some places have natural cemeteries; no embalming and a biodegradable container. Quickly the flesh will decompose, leaving only the bones in the soil, among the flower roots. Among the choices, I find this one least ugly.

 

[Willie Boy]

I'd probably have a panic attack if I woke up six feet underground.

How would you know you were buried? When you wake up all you'd really know is that you were in a small, dark place. You might be able to tell what your surroundings were made of, but maybe not.