My biggest fear, somehow, was death. The fact that we have limited time in this world and everything I know would just die haunted me for such a long time. Fortunately, I found out that I just need to enjoy while it lasts.
the stories about placing bells in graves to ensure that the person buried is dead or alive, gave birth to one of popular sayings: "saved by the bell".
@@thatoneweasel No, of course they would be SAVED by the bell but that is NOT the origin. It's just some dumb phrase that boxers had that has now hit the mainstream.
there are still cases of people being buried alive today, but they are more rare, since people wake up in the morgue. I heard a story of a morgue intern that was charged with murder after seeing a "dead body" started moving and murmuring, so he got very scared, and when the body tried to get up he freaked out and hit her in the head and then she died for real
Reminds me of a scary story I read where a groundskeeper was watching over the graves, heard a bell rang, talked into a tube to the coffin, where the person in the coffin begged to be let go, only for the groundskeeper to cover her up again, and when she asks why, he tells her she was marked as dying weeks ago.
It might be because he’s intending that we haven’t used this system for quite a while. :) Meaning if you heard that bell ringing in a graveyard, a what is supposed to be 100 year old pile of bones is trying to get out.
@@friedec3622 what's the reason of running? it's not like a zombie is gonna climb out of the coffin or smth because it can't that's why it's ringing the bell
I used to live in the town that Alice Blunden lived in and was buried in. I walked through the graveyard many times, they had a small plaque about her on the wall there. But that was it, no one ever really mentioned that story. I got curious and searched it up a while ago. I wish I'd known the story before, would've tried looking for her grave
Look for a pulse maybe? Check for blood circulation. If you hold their nose or mouth to stop breathing will they respond. Cause from what I know if you stop your breathing your body will automatically respond. Or check the eyes for normal response of dilation. Does their skin appear pale and waxy. Is their jaw slack etc. I feel like they could’ve tried harder to make sure they are dead.
this is something i've actually thought about quite a lot over the years (for some reason) one thing i've always wondered is whether they ever used something like a pin-prick test to test the reflexes of the "dead". i'm not a doctor, so i don't know if this would still work on a coma victim or the likes, but surely if someone was just in a really deep sleep like the poppy tea girl if you stuck a needle in their big toe they'd flinch? medically i suppose the nervous system could be something they didn't know about at the time.
I don’t think the poppy seed tea “death” would respond to a pin-prick test specifically because she wouldn’t have felt pain. I’m not too sure about reflexes but as an addict myself becoming a doctor, and have seen a lot of overdosed people, they don’t even react to being punched, sometimes it’s impossible to tell if they’re breathing when their lips are purple and breathing is severely impaired. Poppy seeds when harvested and ‘unwashed’ into tea are contaminated with opiates contained in the milky latex of the seed pod covering them. It is incredibly easy to overdose on poppy seed tea as the alkaloids aren’t consistent with each batch
Yeah, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that. Do graveyards even have guards at night anymore? I'd imagine it was originally to prevent grave robbers but nowadays they seal the graves with concrete.
I know of a confirmed case in our town when an ambulance brought a hypothermic alcoholic man who was mistaken for a dead person. They put him, naked with only a blanket, on an empty table in the morgue waiting for the day shift. And since it was a winter evening, they didn't put him in the freezer (Thankfully). When the man sobered up late at night and started squirming and pulling at the blanket. A janitor was passing by and saw the man, presumably dead, moving and then nearly lost his mind. The funny part is that the patient recovered, got his act together and got recruited as a janitor in the hospital.
I don’t think that’s actually her… it’s just a Photo. And without muscle the jaw will just open and fall into whatever position. Jaws of skulls are usually misaligned and drooping to the side from gravity. If they were mummified you would be able to tell if they were screaming or not.
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There are two stories by Edgar Allan Poe who says a similar thing. One is called "The premature burial" and the other "The fall of the house of Usher". Loved reading them
My morbid sense of humor wants me to get a bell coffin after I die, but to have it secretly made to be 'haunted.' I will in fact be actually dead, but it will have a bell hooked to it that will, on its own accord, ring. I would prefer that the bell rings at least once every year on Halloween sometimes between 12 - 4 AM, how many times the bell sounds and when all being randomly chosen.
there was a man whose horse was the only one whom could hear him sobbing in hiss coffin, a horse that could not be held back, by any stable hands, or by any door. the man had carried this horse as a sickly foal, like a suitcase, [ with a rope or straps,] he had to carry the weak foal all over. for 2 to 4 years. everyone told him to put the thing out of its misery. it was the the neighbors foaling, a weak burden in their eyes, given time this horse grew strong! because this man did not give up on him. that horse, having pinpoint hearing as they do, and being a horse, easily knocked the lid off of the coffin. only then, could the sad people there hear the faint, weak sobbing from the coffin. to their horror, they nearly buried this well loved man of their community alive. but the horse, knew better, and saved him! its true.
Yes you’re gonna need the extra bell and tube special for the coffin. And the night watch 24/7 patrol for about 2 weeks. That’ll be an extra $500 dollars.
All of these nightmares could have been resolved if only cremation were used instead of burials. Or they should wait at least 3 days before burying the corpse.
bro imagine being buried alive, trying to escape and getting tired and taking a break and they dig u out but you were asleep and then you get buried back in and you just thought no one saved you.
Wow. Terrifying. I can't believe they buried her alive twice. You'd think they would be a bit more careful since they thought she was dead before. As in, you know, NOT bury her right away??
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I read that this carried on into modern times. Someone called Amy Semple McPherson somewhere in the US was buried with a live telephone in her coffin "just in case"!
I am from India. Anicient times, Vaidya (doctor) used to check pulse and breathing. As a matter of fact we are hindus. So we don't let the dead one rot in grave, we burn the dead with wood and loads of Clarified butter so that it wouldn't pollute the environment, Pretty sure if someone mistakenly presumed as dead, he or she will definitely scream and can be recovered with some minor burn injures. Like in Sanskrit we says नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः "No weapon can cut the soul into pieces, nor can it be burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind" 🕉️ Shanti
The real question here is why people would invent all of these alerting techniques or pay a doctor for a decades long checkup instead of just... not burying someone on the same day?
Remember that time in history where we didn't know what comatose was and so we just buried people alive? But we knew enough to at least leave bells because everyone fears being buried alive. Strange times.
