Posted on 09/27/2014 3:13:36 PM PDT by Scoutmaster
A cemetery worker got the fright of his life when he heard a woman screaming from inside her buried coffin.
The man told police he could hear muffled shouts and banging coming from the plot of a 49-year-old woman who had been pronounced dead and buried that day.
Workers and cemetery visitors frantically dug up the coffin and smashed it open, however they were too late and the woman had died.
Police visited the Peraia cemetery near Thessaloniki in Greece, however a doctor who examined her body at the scene claimed she had been dead for hours and could not have possibly been buried alive due to her advanced state of rigor mortis.
The doctor, Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek television channel MEGA: ‘We did several tests including one for heart failure on the body.’
A coroner will be carrying out a separate examination on the body.
Police say the woman, a mother of two who suffered from cancer, cannot be named until the post mortem is carried out.
Relatives of the woman say they are considering filing a complaint against the doctors who first pronounced her dead.
Possible vivisepulture ping.
In modern countries that embalm the dead how can someone be buried alive anymore? That should only happen in 3rd world countries
Pining for the fjords.
Maybe the cemetery worker had DTs.
In most states, embalming is not required unless you die of an infectious disease, plan to have a viewing, or there will be a long period between death and interment or cremation. Some states require embalming to cross state lines.
It wasn’t the cough that carried her off — it was the coffin they carried her off in.
Wonder if one can request embalming before anything?
Tax-chick pinged me about the second premature burial article with a "vivisepulture ping."
Since then, we've been pinging each other whenever vivisepulture comes up in an article. I believe we're at seven for the year, but Tax-chick may havw a better count.
We've only had one anthropodermic bibliopegy ping this year.
Didn’t they attach a bell to coffins in some countries in the late 1800’s? Seems like I remember that.
I don’t think you could request embalming before anything. I think your death would be a prerequisite. ;)
I understand its not unusual in European countries not to embalm; it’s expensive, so they do the historical norm. bury them in 24 hours, before, well, they start putrefying and getting ripe, so to speak. Especially in the Mediterranean countries (warmer, faster decomposition).
Way back, some would run a string from inside the coffin attached to a bell above ground, ostensibly so the prematurely buried individual could alert people above ground. The fear of being buried alive was not entirely irrational. Many diseases appeared to mimic death prior to the ability to test for brain wave activity, very slight pulse, etc.
Irrespective of vivisepulture, my mother has visited Greece and says that it is, without question, a Third World country.
Teddy Kennedy was already embalmed when he died.
Funny. Of course after death. BUT she wasn’t dead, was she? If you’re embalmed, you damn sure are dead.
They’re sure of it this time?
Anything = cremation, burial.
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