This (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/buried.htm) is disturbing and tragic, but also very interesting.

THAT is my worst nightmare!...couldn't even begin to read it. i have claustrophobia. not with lifts or shut rooms. but like boots, and coffins.

once at school when i was about 8, i was rotting around in the schools cricket basket. two brats pushed me in and sat on the lid and i freaked. maybe it comes from there. or maybe the womb. there's a process of birth when we can get really constricted appaerently. through the birth canal when it expands and contracts as it pushes us through..........ahhhh, those were the days

It is a terrifying thought. I didn't used to care what happened to me after I died, and I thought that planning your own funeral was a little bit vain. After reading that I think I'll demand cremation. Or a phone.

Haha...i know it might seem a contradiction after what i said, but i want a green funeral. this is where you dont get A grave headstone all that, but are buried in woods and are tree fertilizer

funny..or if you get "murdered", might just get tossed into a river. :m:

Ive read that the legend of zombies might have been started by people being 'killed' by strong natural poisons eg. from puffer fish, whcih puts them in a deep coma, then woken up in coffins or charnal houses. it can be done on purpose so some one will be writen off as dead, then can be dug up + used as a slave in some remote plantation..

wake up in a buried coffin... aarrgghhh. At least youd scream so much that your air would soon run out + you would die a painless death - if not a comfortble one.

Even more disturbing are the things some people do while still alive... http://www.crimelibrary.com/index.html

anyone ever seen the movie dragonfly? lightly touches on levels of conciousness...after life.. before death. not a subject i know much about but the idea of it makes you think.

Well they say that in dying, you rlife flashs before your eyes.. and theres the tunnel of light people hav mentioned.. there must be a few moment just before brain death when you think faster, diferently, the brain just does a kind of defragment. At least, if its not just blown out in a split second!

Duendy, mate , I totally agree with you !

I want a green burial aswell, I think it will do more good for a planet than me rotting in a box for thousands and thousands of years.

What we need is to return what we have taken from this place, and being buried without a coffin or left (politely) on the surface sounds more appealing.

At one time it was the custom to sever the arteries of a supposed corpse before putting it in a coffin to make absolutely sure they were dead.
A friend panicked about going near water when he heard that your life was meant to pass before your eyes in the moments before you drown: it was bad enough having it once, without putting up with a rerun he said.

When I die,
I want to be crushed into a diamond from my ashes.

A crystalline phoenix upon the living hand of a legacy.

itopal that gets my vote for the niftiest idea ive heard yet. although my first mental image of being crushed into a diamond was a bit less nifty....

This is an example of irresponsible reporting, calculated to induce hysteria instead of rational risk analysis and management. Nowhere does it say what the probability is of any given person actually being mistaken for dead and then buried alive, especially in a 21st century urban environment where EMTs are much better trained than the coroners of the Reconstruction Era.

Yes, my friends, this could happen to you. But if you want to prioritize your risks and mitigate the ones that will have the greatest likelihood of actually threatening your life, here are a couple of very real ones: lightning and bee stings. On the order of magnitude of a hundred Americans every year are killed by each of those two natural phenomena. Both are fairly easy to avoid by simply practicing common sense. Don't go outside in a thunderstorm, and carry an easily administered antivenom with you if you walk in areas where there might be beehives.

I'd be very surprised if the rate of mistaken burial is even one per year! It's probably more like one every ten years. If that miniscule level of risk makes you lie awake nights worrying about it, then you should never, EVER ride in an automobile.

When I die,
I want to be crushed into a diamond from my ashes.

A crystalline phoenix upon the living hand of a legacy.

Yeah, that'd be cool. My children would keep me on a necklace.

^ i wonder what the cost of having something like that done would be.

I'd be very surprised if the rate of mistaken burial is even one per year!
Ahem!
How can you tell? By definition, it's something we don't often find out about- even more so with mistaken cremation, which is quicker at least.

my question is how can you be alive after the formaldahyde, even more so the doc runs a test for brain and heart activity when you "die"

i dont think its possible.

being crushed into a dimond would be very expensive,

THAT is my worst nightmare!...couldn't even begin to read it. i have claustrophobia. not with lifts or shut rooms. but like boots, and coffins.

once at school when i was about 8, i was rotting around in the schools cricket basket. two brats pushed me in and sat on the lid and i freaked. maybe it comes from there. or maybe the womb. there's a process of birth when we can get really constricted appaerently. through the birth canal when it expands and contracts as it pushes us through..........ahhhh, those were the days

that is horrible. Remedy it a bit with kill bill part 2.

digging out of a living grave.. that would be something to be proud of! i heard Uma thurman paniced for real when doing that scene.

Speaking of Kill Bill.. you think its that easy to rip someones eye out with your fingers?

you think its that easy to rip someones eye out with your fingers?Haven't seen the film so I can't judge how easy "that easy" is, but it's fairly easy to pop someone's eyes out and to pop them back in.Don't try it at home, it won't do your vision any good.

This is an example of irresponsible reporting, calculated to induce hysteria

Oh come on Fraggle Rocker! Do you really believe that? It's not like it's a newsflash on BBC1. The site is one which brings together urban legends and attempts to determine their source and veracity.
Q. Do people sometimes get buried alive?
A. Yes. Here are some examples and background information.
That's all it does.

but it's fairly easy to pop someone's eyes out and to pop them back in..

uggh!! :eek: so the opticl nerves are like stretchy elastic , the eyes can come right out of their sockets and still see?? gross

ever hear of "Saved by the bell." ?

fuck that, atleast you die.... and quickly at that. Stranded in a desert, tortured, middle of ocean at night, but yeah that sucks. Im letting my best friend eat me and you should to. stop being so selfish and be productive

In 1984, a post-mortem examination was being conducted in a mortuary in New York. When the pathologist made the first cut the "corpse" leaped up and grabbed him by the throat. The pathologist died of shock.
LOL!!!! :D

Haha...i know it might seem a contradiction after what i said, but i want a green funeral. this is where you dont get A grave headstone all that, but are buried in woods and are tree fertilizer
It's fortunate for you that you live in the UK.
In the US, the laws are much more strict, and "Green Funeral" means something very different.
The reason I am settling for creamation is because my first choice (being dumped off in the woods to rot away and be eaten by animals and such) is not legal here.
As green as you can get here is selecting to not be embalmed and be buried in a wooden casket (in a licenced cemetary).
One of my biggest problems with being buried in a cemetary is the necessity of taking up space and continuing to be a consumer (essentially forever) after I am gone (as if I haven't left enough of a footprint here already!!).
My girlfriend wants to be buried "properly", so we decided to compromise and design a headstone for her with a built-in urn for my ashes. If she is going to be taking up space anyway, building an urn into her headstone will not be any difference to me, and she gets her ideal of us "being together" and all that stuff.

Anyway, check out this inetersting site for "Green Funerals" in the states...
http://finalpassages.org/

wow i just read that omg that would suck, the case where his feianci thot he was a zombi... lol ahah. that sucks or to die of embaulming..