Chuck
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They're talking like 4,000 plus years they've been checking pulses.
Like they said, I feel better.
And so, you know, let's say it didn't happen that much because it probably didn't happen enough to the level of which people were scared of it.
It seems to be an outsized fear back then of being buried alive.
That is an actual phobia.
It's called taphophobia.
Taphophobia is Greek for burial phobia.
And, you know, because where we're going with all this, and we may have mentioned this briefly in our coffins episode.
We had to, but this is a deeper dive into what was known as a security coffin or a safety coffin, which was, you know, for a while there, a lot of people got patents to build coffins that had all these little kind of ingenious ways to either get you out of there or alert people above ground that, hey, I'm feeling better.
I mean, the sort of a popular idea at the time was that the veil is very thin between life and death.
And, like, how thin could it be?
Like, maybe so thin where you bury me by accident.