Teen buried alive heard screaming and banging on her coffin, relatives rush to help

Fox News Latino ^ | August 25, 2015 | Fox News Latino

[WhiskeyX]

A 16-year-old Honduran was heard banging and screaming by her grieving husband the day after her coffin had been sealed and encased in concrete.

[IronJack]

I was more focused on the “16-year-old wife” aspect of the story. They marry ‘em young in Honduras, apparently.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Pérez's mother, María Gutiérrez, blames the local doctors for rushing to sign her death certificate. “The doctors declared her dead but everybody else around me kept telling me she wasn't,” she said, as quoted by the Daily Mail. “She didn't look like she had died.”

Ambulance chaser to aisle one....

[silverleaf]

Dem be what chu call “ dead ringers”, mon

[MrEdd]

People can marry young in the United States.
They just have to convince both their parents and a state judge that they are mature enough.

[4yearlurker]

That's a dead ringer!

[4yearlurker]

That was a common practice in Victorian England along with paid "Body Guards" and tall spiked fences around the cemeteries.

[AppyPappy]

“She didn’t look like she had died.”

She kept getting up to get a snack

[Celtic Conservative]

I find the origins of words and phrases infinitely fascinating. most people don’t pay attention to where language comes from. If they did they would be both amused and enlightened.

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[patriot08]

The US practice of embalming tends to ensure that the subject is thoroughly dead before burial
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Embalming was invented during the civil war.

Some were buried alive here in the U.S, too, before that happened- and some afterwards when the practice died out some years after the war.

[9YearLurker]

In this case it sounds like premature burial after premature marriage.

[SaraJohnson]

What would you do with an authoritarian medical system’s doctors who buried one of your family members alive?

It would not be pretty in my very large family.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

How about a couple of these!

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

I am the same way. Look up the history of “eye of the needle”.

[laotzu]

I find the origins of words and phrases infinitely fascinating

You may already know this one, but...

If you trace the origin of the name Cerberus back you will discover that Hades, the god of the underworld, named his hell-hound Spot.

[TADSLOS]

“Saved by the Bell”.