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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

It's called taphophobia.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Taphophobia is Greek for burial phobia.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

And, you know, because where we're going with all this, and we may have mentioned this briefly in our coffins episode.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

I know we have.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

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.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Yeah, for sure.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

I mean, the sort of a popular idea at the time was that the veil is very thin between life and death.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

And, like, how thin could it be?

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Like, maybe so thin where you bury me by accident.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Kiefer Sutherland's wife in that movie, which was a remake of a foreign film.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

The Vanishing?

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Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Yeah, Vanishing.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

Or like Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.

Stuff You Should Know
Short Stuff: Safety Coffins

It was Tim Burton, wasn't it?