Locked out of paradise? No problema! New product as seen on TV

[InkAddict]

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-5-2004_pg9_2

Cemetery offers coffin with panic button

A cemetery in Santiago, Chile is offering its clients coffins with a sensor that detects any movement inside them after they have been buried. According to the Camino a Canaan cemetery the sensor attached to the coffin is to avoid anyone being buried alive.

Spokesperson for the cemetery told La Cuarta: “We want to be pioneers and avoid catalepsy cases, in which a person gets completely paralysed for a few hours and ends up buried as if they were dead.

“We want families to rest assured that if a case like this ever happens their loved ones will be immediately rescued.” —Ananova


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[benburch]

1. It's a really old idea...

They used to bury people with a string that went to a bell above ground, so they could alert people if they were buried alive.

One side effect of embalming is that it makes certain that the buried are indeed quite dead.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. There were also...

coffins with trapdoors for aboveground burials in crypts.

Being buried alive was a real fear back in the days before modern medicine. Miraculous revivals from death were not at all unknown.

It seems to be still feared.

[WinterStorm]

2. As seen on TV?

I need to send one of those to a friend of mine that has a phobia about being buried alive and he hates "As seen on TV merchandise".