10/30/2023 0 Comments I am alive and you are dead![]() The idea is that you'd only be buried up to the air holes. ![]() ![]() This 1868 patent is one of the earliest American coffin patents. We've added a vivifying dollop of color to these patents, but they're all real inventions. That's what makes these so-called "safety coffins" so strange and yet, somehow, oddly compelling. If you have it, you might want to invest in one of these coffins.Īs Jan Bondeson writes in Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear, the fear has been around for centuries - and hundreds of people were listed as having been buried alive in the 1800s. It's called taphophobia - the fear of being buried alive.
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