Fear of being buried alive is the
fear of being
placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced
dead. The abnormal,
psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as (from
Greek taphos, meaning "grave"), which is translated as "fear of graves".Before the advent of modern medicine the fear was not entirely irrational. Throughout history there have been numerous cases of people being accidentally buried alive. The 18th century had seen the development of
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and crude
defibrillation techniques to revive persons considered dead, and the
Royal Humane Society had been formed as the Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Dead. In 1896 an American funeral director, T.M. Montgomery, reported that "nearly 2% of those exhumed were no doubt victims of suspended animation."
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