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Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented

by William Tebb & Edward Perry Vollum

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Two campaigners assembled everything they could find on trance, catalepsy and apparent death: the recorded cases of people buried alive or nearly so, the unreliability of the signs of death as doctors then tested them, the waiting mortuaries of Germany — and their proposals for certification reform, some of which were eventually adopted.

The most famous document of the Victorian fear of being buried alive. Download the free EPUB.

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