EXPERIENCE THE EXPERIENCE OF BEING BURIED ALIVE
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Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA 90026
213-483-8761
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The people present will have an opportunity to be buried alive in a coffin
for fifteen minutes. As a framework program there will be lectures about
the history of the science of determining death and the medical cultural
history of "buried alive". People buried alive not only populate
the horror stories of past centuries, but also countless reports in specialized
medical literature. The theme of unintentional resurrection by grave robbers
also runs through forensic protocols. Even in the 19th century it was said
that every tenth person was buried alive. No wonder that the fear of this
fate was immense and led - especially in the German-speaking region - to
all kinds of precautions to avoid it. Various death test methods were developed,
for instance. "Security coffins" with bell pulls and air hoses
were patented; mortuaries were built, in which corpses were left for days
to natural decay.
Free
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http://www.monochrom.at/english/
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