Taphophobia (sometimes spelled taphephobia), or the fear of being buried alive, is a primal anxiety that has persisted ...

With such a horrific topic, explicit title, great cover, and extensive research, Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear ... and almost admits to being involved in one ...

In Life After Death, the fear of being buried alive, in a state of catalepsy, is expressed: I felt cramped in the coffin, my pillow was made of carpentry shavings, a hard corpse pillow for eternal ...

With such simple means of identifying death, there was a real fear of being buried alive. In fact, there are stories from the past of this happening. One amusing, though macabre, story is of a ...

Ms Achieng explains that the struggle to make living defeats the fear of possibly being buried alive while searching for gold. Men dig through the caves while the actual search for gold from the ...