Premature burial
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Premature burial, also known as live burial, burial alive, or vivisepulture, means to be buried while still alive.
Antoine Wiertz's painting of a man buried alive
A burial vault built c. 1890 with internal escape hatches to allow the victim of accidental premature burial to escape
Killing the Scholars and Burning the Books, anonymous 18th century Chinese painted album leaf depicts Confucian scholars being buried alive in Imperial China during the 3rd century BC
16th-century Portuguese illustration from the Códice Casanatense, depicting a Hindu ritual, in which a widow is buried alive with her dead husband
William Tebb
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William Tebb was an English businessman and wide-ranging social reformer. He was an anti-vaccinationist and author of anti-vaccination books. He was also concerned about premature burial.
