A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEING BURIED ALIVE
A BRIEF HISTORY OF BEING BURIED ALIVE What happens when you're six feet under with no way out? Imagine you have a rare disorder, not unlike epilepsy, that causes your heart to slow to a near standstill. Imagine you black out one day and wake up in darkness in a small box, the smell of pine and cement heavy in your nostrils. You scream, but no one can hear you . You push at the top of the box, but it’s not budging. Your breathing quickens. It slowly dawns on you — you’ve been buried alive. And you’re far from the first person who this has ever happened to. The Mummies of Mexico Like all of the 119 mummies in El Museo de las Mumias, Ignacia Aguilar fell victim to a cholera epidemic that swept Guanajuato, Mexico in 1833. The deceased were buried quickly to prevent the spread of disease in above ground mausoleums. Twenty years later, the local government disinterred some of the bodies and discovered they’d been naturally mummified. Today, the mummies are on display in t