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On July 15, , she took ill and fell into a deep sleep after taking poppy water. Coffins are not watertight so when the grave fills with water it also fills the coffin, which decomposes and rots the bodies faster. A common story from that time period was the tale of Tom Guerin, a three-year-old boy who was buried alive by mistake. Guerin was presumed dead and buried, but during the interment, the gravediggers accidentally broke both of his legs with a spade.
If the coffin is sealed in a very wet, heavy clay ground, the body tends to last longer because the air is not getting to the deceased.
If the ground is light, dry soil, decomposition is quicker. Generally speaking, a body takes 10 or 15 years to decompose to a skeleton. Sleeping in one of these would be similar to sleeping in a high-quality coffin, but with less comfy bedding. Coffins look like they have some soft, fluffy padding. As Christopher answered, soil creatures will easily get to a buried body.
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You cannot recover from brain death. If you are in a coma, on the other hand, you are legally very much alive. In a coma, you still have brain function, which doctors can measure by observing electrical activity and your reactions to external stimuli.
In other words, your body continues to breathe, your heart beats, etc. Even better, you can, potentially, recover from a coma and regain consciousness. We now have a whole battery of scientific tests to confirm that someone is really, truly brain-dead. Okay, but what if I fall into a deep, deep coma? Will someone eventually pull the plug and send me off to the mortuary?
Will I be trapped in both a casket and in the prison of my mind? We now have a whole battery of scientific tests to confirm that someone is not just in a coma, but really, truly brain-dead. When a bright light is shined into them, do they contract? Your breathing tube might be moved in and out of your throat, to see if you gag.
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