Entombment Technologies to Protect You from Being Buried Alive



The fear of being buried alive is an old one, and is even the origin of the phrase "saved by the bell". Annalee Newitz of io9 has a roundup of technologies developed over the years, right up to the present day, to prevent a person from meeting this fate. Pictured above is Thomas Pursell's 1930s-era tomb that featured doors that could be opened from the inside.

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