Is it true that the German just made casket with a panic button inside?
2006-11-14 11:30:37 · 8 answers · asked by Lee P 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
probably
2006-11-14 11:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by kclr16 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, but the Russians did.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/announcements/russian-coffin-buries-you-with-panic-button-213578.php
Well, a Russian inventor by the name of Vitaly Malyukov must have watched the same movie cause he's designed a casket with a built-in panic button that lets you contact the living in case your quack of a doctor accidentally pronounced you dead. Pushing the panic button (which glows in the dark) alerts the cemetery caretaker who can then dig you back up (after they return from their lunch break, of course). So in the end you'll wind up dead one way or another. No word on pricing or availability. – Louis Ramirez
Published Nov 9, 2006
2006-11-14 19:34:34 · answer #2 · answered by sweetie_baby 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and no.
the whole panic button idea isnt old. back in the day they used to have strings that went through a tube and into the casket. on the other end was a bell. if the bell rang then the person they buried wasnt dead.
panic buttons and casket emergency systems actually go back pretty far. i saw adocumentary about it. or something like it, on the Discovery channel (might have been TLC). really interesting stuff.
apaprentl on the old sail driven clipper ships, when someone died, they would put them in a sack and sew it up. the last stitch went through the underbridge of the nose (the art between the nostrils) . that was meant to confirm the person was dead. if they werent theyd wake up from the pain.
saw that on another documentary, shortly after Master And COmmander came out. good movie too.
2006-11-14 19:32:34 · answer #3 · answered by johnny_zondo 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I don't think it was only the Germans who did that. Many people used to be deathly afraid of premature burial, and so caskets were made with means of signalling the outside world. Some of them were very elaborate!
2006-11-14 19:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by wleef2002 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you really think that when the Lord raises the dead they will have a panic but or have to struggle to get out of the grave. They won't need help to be raised.
2006-11-14 19:39:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't heard of that, but the idea has been around for a long time.
Edgar Alan Poe wrote stories about how scared he was of being buried alive.
I guess it was a problem before embalming came into play.
2006-11-14 19:34:41 · answer #6 · answered by Chris R 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In the 1800's, they had bells they could ring if they were accidently buried alive. Of course, with imbalming, that's not really a problem anymore, if you weren't dead before, you'll be dead after.
2006-11-14 19:38:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it wasn't a panic button---it was an eject button.
2006-11-14 19:33:43 · answer #8 · answered by ace 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋