These people must be buried in extra large coffins for them to able to manipulate their arms to scratch the inside of the coffin or for them to be found sitting in an upward position. If not buried in a coffin, how were they able to move into a sitting position with six feet of dirt on top of them. To say nothing of a lack of oxygen.
I shouldn't have used the word 'upright', but use your imagination. If a person was found sitting inside a coffin, she would likely be very short or young, would be inside a standard large coffin for adults, and would be leaning forward with the back of her head and shoulders pressed hard against the top of the coffin.
Obviously, if someone is buried without a coffin, under 6 feet of earth, there's no way they could move. I'm referring only to coffin burials where scratch marks, fragments of the person's nails, including some blood, have been found on the inside of some of the resumed coffins.
But since these stories appear on the internet they must be true.
Of course not. My post is about the point made by the Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, that there are 'No facts, only Interpretations', which was highlighted by Slobodan in an earlier post. Nietsche's statement 'there are no facts' also requires interpretation, which I'm attempting to do.
The following article is from NeuWrite Dan Diego which is a collaborative group of scientists from various departments at UCSD, including UCSD Neurosciences, Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Biology, and from the Salk Institute.
"You wake up. It’s pitch black, the air is stale, and your body is pressed by wooden planks on all sides. You try to reach up but your hand hits wooden planks above you. Seized by terror, you try to thrash about but there is no room to move and it’s getting harder to breathe. Your hands hit, scratch, claw at the wood in front of them but nothing moves. With your last gasps of air you scream but the wood and dirt surrounding you swallows the sound.
This scenario was a reality for a disturbingly high number of people only a century or two ago, before good practices and techniques for identifying when a patient was dead became readily available. The podcast Memory Palace tells stories of digging up coffins to find evidence of people who died in the exact scenario described above. One woman tried to claw her way out, ripping her fingernails out in the wood. Another man shattered his skull trying to bash his way out. Not every story ends horrifically; there are stories of dead people waking up at funerals and the resulting mass hysteria this caused. Doctors simply did not have instruments sensitive enough to detect the difference between some reversible conditions (such as comas, epileptic fits, and drug-induced narcolepsy) and actual death."https://neuwritesd.org/2014/02/27/buried-alive/Here's another interesting article delving into the history of this issue. There is a medical term for the 'fear of being buried alive', which is
Taphephobia, which presumably some people developed because of a general awareness than sometimes people were mistakenly diagnosed as dead and buried alive.
"George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he wanted his seemingly deceased body to be laid out for three days, just to make sure he was really dead, writes Sarah Murray in Making an Exit. Writer Hans Christian Anderson and Alfred Nobel, who established the Nobel Prizes, also shared this fear, and wanted their veins to be opened after they appeared to die to make sure they were really gone."https://www.history.com/news/why-many-famous-figures-feared-theyd-be-buried-aliveThe last paragraph for the article linked to:
"But healthcare professionals and researchers alike are in general agreement that in this day and age, physicians have the expertise and medical equipment to effectively determine when a patient has passed."
Which is why it is reasonable to deduce that such cases of misdiagnosis are under-reported because of the damaging effect such reporting can have on the reputation of the hospital and the doctors involved.
As you can see, I'm feeling very cheerful today. It must be because of the sunlight and the vitamin D, not to mention the Nitric Oxide and Serotonin.
